Fig. 1.
Flow chart of this study. The subjects were recruited form the cross-sectional survey on the workers with occupational noise exposure. Then 476 NIHL subjects and matched controls were genotyped. NIHL-associated SNPs were screened and GRS model was constructed. Four hundred eighty-five subjects with non-NIHL at baseline were further followed up and NIHL-associated SNPs and GRS model were further validated