Table 2 Nonsynonymous rare (minor allele frequency, MAF < 0.01) variants and gene burdens associated (P < 5 × 10−8) with hearing loss in meta-analysis.

From: Population-scale analysis of common and rare genetic variation associated with hearing loss in adults

Gene

Top Burden/SNV

OR (LCI, UCI)

p-value

Direction

KLHDC7B

pLOF only (MAF ≤ 0.01)

2.145 (1.881, 2.446)

5.22E−30

−+++?

TECTA

pLOF + strict deleterious missense

(MAF ≤ 0.01)

1.358 (1.271, 1.451)

1.10E−19

++++?

MYO6

pLOF + strict deleterious missense

(MAF ≤ 0.0001)

1.565 (1.420, 1.725)

1.51E−19

+++??

FSCN2

pLOF + all missense

(MAF ≤ 0.01)

1.144 (1.107, 1.183)

1.90E−15

+++−?

COL11A2

6:33189182:A:G; Phe80Ser

6.926 (4.280, 11.208)

3.24E−15

?+???

SYNJ2

6:158071628:C:T; Thr656Met

1.306 (1.221, 1.398)

1.25E−14

+++++

SLC26A5

pLOF and strict deleterious missense

(MAF ≤ 0.0001)

1.956 (1.674, 2.284)

2.75E−17

−++??

COCH

pLOF + strict deleterious missense

(MAF ≤ 0.0001)

1.719 (1.449, 2.039)

5.22E−10

−++??

SIX1

pLOF + strict deleterious missense

(MAF ≤ 0.00001)

4.252 (2.825, 6.400)

3.95E−12

?++??

CEACAM16

pLOF + deleterious missense

(MAF ≤ 0.01)

1.187 (1.128, 1.249)

4.01E−11

−++−?

GJB2

13:20189546:AC:A; Gly12fs

1.214 (1.146, 1.286)

4.23E−11

−+++?

TBC1D24

16:2497068:A:G; Asn307Ser

4.140 (2.571, 6.668)

5.10E−09

?++??

POU4F3

pLOF + all missense

(MAF ≤ 0.00001)

1.923 (1.529, 2.418)

2.31E−08

?++??

CDH23

10:71712737:A:G; Asn1103Ser

1.204 (1.127, 1.287)

3.70E−08

++++?

EYA4

pLOF only

(MAF ≤ 0.001)

3.077 (2.061, 4.595)

3.87E−08

+++??

  1. The direction of the effect in each single study (in the order: MALMO, UKB, GHS, SINAI, FinnGen) in the meta-analysis is given in the ‘Direction’ column where ‘+’ indicates increased risk, ‘−’ indicates decreased risk and ‘?’ indicates that the variant was not present or tested.