1.Analysis of result of gene screening of neonatal deafness in Huizhou and surrounding urban areas.
Yun ZENG ; Xuanting LU ; Lifang WU ; Yan ZHENG
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics 2021;38(12):1176-1179
OBJECTIVE:
To detect common pathogenic variants associated with congenital deafness among neonates from Huizhou and surrounding areas and discuss its implications.
METHODS:
Thirteen hot-spot mutations in four most common pathogenic genes were screened among 20 934 neonates from March 2017 to December 2019.
RESULTS:
In total 760 neonates were found to carry common pathogenic variants (3.63%). Sixty two neonates have carried homozygous/compound heterozygous variants or homoplasmy/heteroplasmy mutations of mtDNA (0.29%). Further analysis of five abnormal cases revealed that 3 of them have carried compound heterozygous mutations of GJB2 gene, and 2 were due to compound heterozygous variants of the CDH23 gene.
CONCLUSION
Genetic testing has a great clinical significance for the prevention and reduction of congenital hearing loss, but the scope needs to be updated and redefined by removing mutation sites with a very low rate, adding new significant sites, and improvement of the technical strategies.
Connexin 26
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Connexins/genetics*
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DNA Mutational Analysis
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Deafness/genetics*
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Genetic Testing
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Hearing Loss/genetics*
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Mutation
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Neonatal Screening