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Pathogenic variants in <jats:italic>PDZD7<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>RBM20<\/jats:italic> are associated with autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss and autosomal dominant dilated cardiomyopathy, respectively, suggesting that these variants are unlikely likely to contribute to the clinical presentation. Gene panel analysis was performed on the two affected siblings in Family 2, and they were found to also be homozygous for the p.Gly228Arg <jats:italic>CNTNAP2<\/jats:italic> variant. Together these families provide a LOD score 2.9 toward p.Gly228Arg <jats:italic>CNTNAP2<\/jats:italic> being a completely penetrant recessive cause of this disease. The clinical presentation of the affected siblings in both families is also consistent with previous reports from individuals with homozygous <jats:italic>CNTNAP2<\/jats:italic> variants where at least one allele was a nonsense variant, frameshift or small deletion. 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