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To date, five causative genes associated with HS have been identified, including <jats:italic>ANK1, SPTB, SPTA1, SLC4A1<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>EPB42<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> Clinically suspected patients with HS or undiagnosed HA from 14 Chinese families were enrolled in this study. We presented the patients\u2019 clinical features and identified the causative gene variants in these patients using whole exome sequencing (WES), with 10 novel and four reported mutations in the <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic> genes (seven mutations in <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> and seven in <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic>), individually. Then, we reviewed all available literature on Chinese HS patients from 2000 to 2020 in PubMed and Chinese Journals with genetic results and clinical information, to delineate gene mutation spectrum and potential correlation with phenotypes.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> A total of 158 variants (including 144 in previous reports and 14 in this study) indicated that <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> (46%) and <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic> (42%) were the most frequently mutated genes in Chinese HS patients, followed by <jats:italic>SLC4A1<\/jats:italic> (11%) <jats:italic>and SPTA1<\/jats:italic> (1%), while no mutations in <jats:italic>EPB42<\/jats:italic> was reported. Most of the mutations in <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic> were nonsense (26\/73 in <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> and 32\/66 in <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic>) and frameshift (20\/73 in <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> and 15\/66 in <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic>), while missense mutations (14\/18) accounted for the majority in <jats:italic>SLC4A1<\/jats:italic>. The higher mutation frequency of <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> was found in its exon 8, 9, 26, and 28. The majority of mutations in <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic> were located in its exon 13, 15, and 18\u201330, whereas mutations in <jats:italic>SLC4A1<\/jats:italic> were scattered throughout the entire region of the gene.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> Our study expanded the mutation spectrum of <jats:italic>ANK1<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>SPTB<\/jats:italic>. 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