In our cohort, pathogenic variants were also detected in a number of other deafness genes, including KCNQ4, POU3F4, MYO7A, TMPRSS3, EYA1, TECTA, MITF, POU4F3, PJVK, COL4A5, WFS1, GATA3, SIX5, USH2A, OTOG, PAX3, MYO6, ATP6V1B2, SOX10, PTPRQ, EPS8L2, and EDNRB, as shown in Table 6. This evidence concerns the gene PTPRQ and deafness.