Genetic hearing impairment is mostly nonsyndromic (80%), and >6,000 causal variants in >100 genes have been identified. Generally in hearing-impaired patients of Asian descent, GJB2 variants are most common (36%), followed by variants in SLC26A4 (MIM 605646), MYO15A (MIM 602666) and CDH23 (MIM 605516). Here we report seven novel variants in Filipino cochlear implantees, suggesting that the allelic spectrum for non-/syndromic hearing impairment in Filipinos is unique
