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This study expands screening to analyze the mutation types and frequency of hereditary deafness genes in Zhejiang, China, and explore the significance of in-depth deafness genetic screening in newborns.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This was a multi-centre study conducted in 5,120 newborns from 12 major hospitals in the East-West (including mountains and islands) of Zhejiang Province. Concurrent hearing and genetic screening was performed. For genetic testing, 159 variants of 22 genes were screened, including <jats:italic>CDH23<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>COL11A1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>DFNA5<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>DFNB59<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>DSPP<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>GJB2<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>GJB3<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>KCNJ10<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>MT-RNR1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>MT-TL1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>MT-TS1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>MYO15A<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>MYO7A<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>OTOF<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>PCDH15<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>SLC26A4<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>SOX10<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>TCOF1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>TMC1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>USH1G<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>WFS1<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>WHRN<\/jats:italic> using next-generation sequencing. Newborns who failed to have genetic mutations or hearing screening were diagnosed audiologically at the age of 6 months.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 4,893 newborns (95.57%) have passed the initial hearing screening, and 7 (0.14%) have failed in repeated screening. Of these, 446 (8.71%) newborns carried at least one genetic deafness-associated variant. High-risk pathogenic variants were found in 11 newborns (0.21%) (nine homozygotes and two compound heterozygotes), and eight of these infants have passed the hearing screening. The frequency of mutations in <jats:italic>GJB2<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>GJB3<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>SLC26A4<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>12SrRNA<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>TMC1<\/jats:italic> was 5.43%, 0.59%, 1.91%, 0.98%, and 0.02%, respectively. The positive rate of in-depth screening was significantly increased when compared with 20 variants in four genes of traditional testing, wherein <jats:italic>GJB2<\/jats:italic> was increased by 97.2%, <jats:italic>SLC26A4<\/jats:italic> by 21% and <jats:italic>MT-RNR1<\/jats:italic> by 150%. The most common mutation variants were GJB2c.235delC and SLC26A4c.919-2A &amp;gt; G, followed by GJB2c.299_300delAT. Homoplasmic mutation in <jats:italic>MT-RNR1<\/jats:italic> was the most common, including m.1555A &amp;gt; G, m.961T &amp;gt; C, m.1095T &amp;gt; C. All these infants have passed routine hearing screening. The positive rate of <jats:italic>MT-RNR1<\/jats:italic> mutation was significantly higher in newborns with high-risk factors of maternal pregnancy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The positive rate of deafness gene mutations in the Zhejiang region is higher than that of the database, mainly in GJB2c.235delC, SLC26A4 c.919-2A &amp;gt; G, and m.1555A &amp;gt; G variants. The expanded genetic screening in the detection rate of diseasecausing variants was significantly improved. 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