Identification of a rhodopsin gene mutation in a large family with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.

ABSTRACT: Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetically highly heterogeneous retinal disease and one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. Next-generation sequencing technology has enormous potential for determining the genetic etiology of RP. We sought to identify the underlying genetic defect in a 35-year-old male from an autosomal-dominant RP family with 14 affected individuals. By capturing next-generation sequencing (CNGS) of 144 genes associated with retinal diseases, we identified eight novel DNA variants; however, none of them cosegregated for all the members of the family. Further analysis of the CNGS data led to identification of a recurrent missense mutation (c.403C > T, p.R135W) in the rhodopsin (RHO) gene, which cosegregated with all affected individuals in the family and was no

SUBMITTER: Yu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4726306 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature