• Marzieh Mohseni, Yusuf Mohammadi, Farzane Zare Ashrafi, Fatemeh Ghodratpour, Khadijeh Jalalvand, Sanaz Arzhangi, Mojgan Babanejad, Mohammad Hossein Azizi, Kimia Kahrizi, and Hossein Najmabadi.
• Genetics Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Arch Iran Med. 2023 Mar 1; 26 (3): 176180176-180.

AbstractGenetic analysis of non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) has been challenged due to marked clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Today, advanced next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, such as exome sequencing (ES), have drastically increased the efficacy of gene identification in heterogeneous Mendelian disorders. Here, we present the utility of ES and re-evaluate the phenotypic data for identifying candidate causal variants for previously unexplained progressive moderate to severe NSHL in an extended Iranian family. Using this method, we identified a known heterozygous nonsense variant in exon 26 of the DIAPH1 gene (MIM: 602121), which led to "Deafness, autosomal dominant 1, with or without thrombocytopenia; DFNA1" (MIM: 124900) in this large family in the absence of GJB2 disease-causing variants and also OtoSCOPE-negative results. To the best of our knowledge, this nonsense variant (NM_001079812.3):c.3610C>T (p.Arg1204Ter) is the first report of the DIAPH1 gene variant for autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss (ADNSHL) in Iran.© 2023 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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