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JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 59, Issue 11, Pages 599-607Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2014.78
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- Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China [81030017]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar [81125008]
- National Basic Research Programs [2013CB945402, 2012CB316504, 2012CB316503]
- Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund [463811]
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Here, we report an unconventional Chinese pedigree consisting of three branches all segregating prelingual hearing loss (HL) with unclear inheritance pattern. After identifying the cause of one branch as maternally inherited aminoglycoside-induced HL, targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) was applied to identify the genetic causes for the other two branches. One affected subject from each branch was subject to targeted NGS whose genomic DNA was enriched either by whole-exome capture (Agilent SureSelect All Exon 50 Mb) or by candidate genes capture (Agilent SureSelect custom kit). By NGS analysis, we identified that patients from Branch A were compound heterozygous for p.E1006K and p.D1663V in the CDH23 (DFNB12) gene; and patients from Branch B were homozygous for IVS7-2A>G in the SLC26A4 (DFNB4) gene. Both CDH23 mutations altered conserved calcium binding sites of the extracellular cadherin domains. The co-occurrence of three different genetic causes in this family was exceedingly rare but fully compatible with the mutation spectrum of HL. Our study has also raised several technical and analytical issues when applying the NGS technique to genetic testing.
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