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A retrospective study was conducted on 652 newborns with biallelic GJB2 mutations detected at the Newborn Diseases Screening Center of Shenzhen Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital from January 2022 to December 2024. The differences in mutation types, hearing screening, and diagnostic results were analyzed and compared between the homozygous and compound heterozygous mutation groups to assess their correlation with hearing phenotypes. Genotype analysis identified 543 cases of homozygous mutations, mainly the c.109G&gt;A\/c.109G&gt;A genotype (98.90%). Compound heterozygous mutations were identified in 109 cases, with the majority being c.109G&gt;A\/c.235delC (76.15%). Following two-stage hearing screening, 227 (34.82%) of the 652 cases were referred, with bilateral failure accounting for the majority (81.94%) of these cases. The referral rates showed no significant difference between the homozygous (35.54%) and compound heterozygous (31.19%) groups (p &gt; 0.05). The overall hearing loss detection rate was 6.90% (45\/652); among these, eight infants who had initially passed the newborn hearing screening were later found to have hearing loss between 2.5 and 6 months of age. Among the 45 confirmed deaf children, hearing loss was mainly mild to moderate (87.50%), and profound deafness was only seen in the homozygous mutation group (10.29%, 7\/68 ears). Most newborns with biallelic GJB2 mutations passed the two-stage hearing screening, and associated hearing loss was typically mild to moderate. Long-term auditory monitoring remains essential for all genetically confirmed infants to monitor late-onset progression.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijns11040110","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,3]],"date-time":"2025-12-03T16:47:37Z","timestamp":1764780457000},"page":"110","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Genotype Characteristics and Hearing Phenotype Analysis of Newborns with Biallelic GJB2 Mutations: A 652-Case\u2013Cohort Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-5433-9394","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianjun","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Newborn Diseases Screening Center, Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen 518000, China"},{"name":"Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Maternal and Child Health and Diseases, Shenzhen 518000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Newborn Diseases Screening Center, Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen 518000, China"},{"name":"Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Maternal and Child Health and Diseases, Shenzhen 518000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenlan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Newborn Diseases Screening Center, Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen 518000, China"},{"name":"Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Maternal and Child Health and Diseases, Shenzhen 518000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"648","DOI":"10.1136\/archdischild-2011-301501","article-title":"The impact of early identification of permanent childhood hearing impairment on speech and language outcomes","volume":"97","author":"Pimperton","year":"2012","journal-title":"Arch. 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