Nikopoulos, Konstantinos and Avila-Fernandez, Almudena and Corton, Marta and Lopez-Molina, Maria Isabel and Perez-Carro, Raquel and Bontadelli, Lara and Di Gioia, Silvio Alessandro and Zurita, Olga and Garcia-Sandoval, Blanca and Rivolta, Carlo and Ayuso, Carmen. (2015) Identification of two novel mutations in CDHR1 in consanguineous Spanish families with autosomal recessive retinal dystrophy. Scientific Reports, 5. p. 13902.
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Abstract
Inherited retinal dystrophies present extensive phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity, posing a challenge for patients' molecular and clinical diagnoses. In this study, we wanted to clinically characterize and investigate the molecular etiology of an atypical form of autosomal recessive retinal dystrophy in two consanguineous Spanish families. Affected members of the respective families exhibited an array of clinical features including reduced visual acuity, photophobia, defective color vision, reduced or absent ERG responses, macular atrophy and pigmentary deposits in the peripheral retina. Genetic investigation included autozygosity mapping coupled with exome sequencing in the first family, whereas autozygome-guided candidate gene screening was performed by means of Sanger DNA sequencing in the second family. Our approach revealed nucleotide changes in CDHR1; a homozygous missense variant (c.1720C>G, p.P574A) and a homozygous single base transition (c.1485+2T>C) affecting the canonical 5' splice site of intron 13, respectively. Both changes co-segregated with the disease and were absent among cohorts of unrelated control individuals. To date, only five mutations in CDHR1 have been identified, all resulting in premature stop codons leading to mRNA nonsense mediated decay. Our work reports two previously unidentified homozygous mutations in CDHR1 further expanding the mutational spectrum of this gene.
Faculties and Departments: | 03 Faculty of Medicine 09 Associated Institutions > Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Rivolta, Carlo |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
e-ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2021 12:50 |
Deposited On: | 03 Mar 2021 12:50 |
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