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Objective
The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of genetic variants associated with hearing loss in a large cohort of children in Canada using high throughput next generation sequencing (NGS).
Methods
A total of 485 children with hearing loss underwent NGS testing with an 80 gene panel of syndromic and non‐syndromic variants known to be associated with hearing loss. Genetic variants...