Concurrent Newborn Hearing and Genetic Screening in a Multi-Ethnic Population in South China

• Main Authors: Xiangrong Tang (Author), Lihua Liu (Author), Sulan Liang (Author), Meie Liang (Author), Tao Liao (Author), Shiqiang Luo (Author), Tizhen Yan (Author), Jianping Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hearing loss is a common sensory deficit in humans with intricate genomic landscape and mutational signature. Approximately 1-3 out of 1,000 newborns have hearing loss and up to 60% of these cases have a genetic etiology. In this study, we conducted the concurrent newborn hearing and genetic screeni...