Hearing Screening Combined with Target Gene Panel Testing Increased Etiological Diagnostic Yield in Deaf Children,Neural Plasticity

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Hearing Screening Combined with Target Gene Panel Testing Increased Etiological Diagnostic Yield in Deaf Children
Neural Plasticity ( IF 3.0 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-23 , DOI: 10.1155/2021/6151973
Le Xie ₁ , Yue Qiu ₁ , Yuan Jin ₁ , Kai Xu ₁ , Xue Bai ₁ , Xiao-Zhou Liu ₁ , Xiao-Hui Wang ₁ , Sen Chen ₁ , Yu Sun ₁

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Genetic testing is the gold standard for exploring the etiology of congenital hearing loss. Here, we enrolled 137 Chinese patients with congenital hearing loss to describe the molecular epidemiology by using 127 gene panel testing or 159 variant testing. Sixty-three deaf children received 127 gene panel testing, while seventy-four patients received 159 variant testing. By use of 127 gene panel testing, more mutant genes and variants were identified. The most frequent mutant genes were GJB2, SLC26A4, MYO15A, CDH23, and OTOF. By analyzing the patients who received 127 gene panel testing, we found that 51 deaf children carried variants which were not included in 159 variant testing. Therefore, a large number of patients would be misdiagnosed if only 159 variant testing is used. This study highlights the advantage of 127 gene panel testing, and it suggests that broader genetic testing should be done to identify the genetic etiology of congenital hearing loss.

更新日期：2021-07-23

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