Abstract

BackgroundMYO15A variants are responsible for human non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness (DFNB3). The majority of MYO15A variants are associated with a congenital severe-to-profound hearing loss phenotype, except for MYO15A variants in exon 2, which cause a milder auditory phenotype, suggesting a genotype-phenotype correlation of MYO15A. However, MYO15A variants not in exon 2 related to a milder phenotype have also been reported, indicating that the genotype-phenotype correlation of MYO15A is complicated. This study aimed to provide more cases of MYO15A variation with diverse phenotypes to analyse this complex correlation.MethodsFifteen Chinese autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL) individuals with MYO15A variants (8 males and 7 females) from 14 unrelated families, identified by targeted gene capture of 127 known candidate deafness genes, were recruited. Additionally, we conducted a review of the literature to further analyses all reported MYO15A genotype-phenotype relationships worldwide.ResultsWe identified 16 novel variants and 12 reported pathogenic MYO15A variants in 15 patients, two of which presented with a milder phenotype. Interestingly, one of these cases carried two reported pathogenic variants in exon 2, while the other carried two novel variants not in exon 2. Based on our literature review, MYO15A genotype-phenotype correlation analysis showed that almost all domains were reported to be correlated with a milder phenotype. However, variants in the N-terminal domain were more likely to cause a milder phenotype. Using next-generation sequencing (NGS), we also found that the number of known MYO15A variants with milder phenotypes in Southeast Asia has increased in recent years.ConclusionOur work extended the MYO15A variant spectrum, enriched our knowledge of auditory phenotypes, and tried to explore the genotype-phenotype correlation in different populations in order to investigate the cause of the complex MYO15A genotype-phenotype correlation.

Highlights

  • MYO15A variants are responsible for human non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness (DFNB3)

  • MYO15A variants are responsible for non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness (DFNB3, OMIM 600316) in humans, whereas variants of homologous Myo15 genes lead to deafness and vestibular dysfunction in mice [5,6,7,8]

  • Recent studies have reported that some variants of MYO15A affecting the function of other domains, which were expected to bring about congenital severe to profound hearing loss, were observed to result in various milder auditory phenotypes [9, 10]

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Introduction

MYO15A variants are responsible for human non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness (DFNB3). The majority of MYO15A variants are associated with a congenital severe-to-profound hearing loss phenotype, except for MYO15A variants in exon 2, which cause a milder auditory phenotype, suggesting a genotype-phenotype correlation of MYO15A. MYO15A variants are responsible for non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness (DFNB3, OMIM 600316) in humans, whereas variants of homologous Myo genes lead to deafness and vestibular dysfunction in mice (shaker-2) [5,6,7,8]. Recent studies have reported that some variants of MYO15A affecting the function of other domains, which were expected to bring about congenital severe to profound hearing loss, were observed to result in various milder auditory phenotypes [9, 10]

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