Low population penetrance of variants associated with inherited retinal degenerations.

ABSTRACT: Inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs) are the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults and are thought to be monogenic with near-complete penetrance. However, traditional variant discovery based on phenotypic ascertainment may inflate penetrance estimates and obscure the true genotype-phenotype spectrum. We used large biobanks with linked genomic and clinical data to quantify the population-level penetrance of IRD-associated variants. We screened 317,964 All of Us (AoU) participants for loss-of-function or pathogenic IRD variants to curate a cohort with definite IRD-compatible genotypes. We defined three nested International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9/10 code sets ("IRD," "retinopathy," and "screening") to derive lower- and upper-bound penetrance estimates via disease anno

SUBMITTER: Zaslavsky K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12782285 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature