April 2010
Volume 51, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2010
Prevalence and Novelty of EYS Mutations in Rod-Cone Dystrophy Patients in France
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • I. S. Audo
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Centre Référence Maladies Rares "dystrophies rétiniennes d’origine génétique"/CIC 503 INSERM,
    CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France
  • J.-A. Sahel
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Centre Référence Maladies Rares "Dystrophies Rétiniennes d’Origine Génétique"/CIC 503 INSERM,
    CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France
  • S. Mohand-Saïd
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Centre Référence Maladies Rares "dystrophies rétiniennes d’origine génétique"/CIC 503 INSERM,
    CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France
  • M.-E. Lancelot
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
  • I. Barragan
    Unidad Clínica de Genética, Reproducción y Medicina Fetal, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain
    Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Seville, Spain
  • M. M. Abd El-Aziz
    Department of Molecular Genetics, University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
  • E. F. Nandrot
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
  • G. Antinolo
    Unidad Clínica de Genética, Reproducción y Medicina Fetal, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain
    Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Seville, Spain
  • S. S. Bhattacharya
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Department of Molecular Genetics, University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
  • C. Zeitz
    Department of Genetics, INSERM, UMR_S968; CNRS, UMR_7210, UPMC Univ Paris 06-Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  I.S. Audo, None; J.-A. Sahel, None; S. Mohand-Saïd, None; M.-E. Lancelot, None; I. Barragan, None; M.M. Abd El-Aziz, None; E.F. Nandrot, None; G. Antinolo, None; S.S. Bhattacharya, None; C. Zeitz, None.
  • Footnotes
    Support  IA: FFB grant CD-CL-0808-0466-CHNO; for CIC503 FFB Grant #: C-CMM-0907-0428-INSERM04; CZ and EN are supported by the Foundation Voir et Entendre; SSB is supported by an ANR Chaire d'excellence
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      I. S. Audo, J.-A. Sahel, S. Mohand-Saïd, M.-E. Lancelot, I. Barragan, M. M. Abd El-Aziz, E. F. Nandrot, G. Antinolo, S. S. Bhattacharya, C. Zeitz; Prevalence and Novelty of EYS Mutations in Rod-Cone Dystrophy Patients in France. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2010;51(13):1368.

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Abstract

Purpose: : to establish the prevalence and nature of EYS mutations (RP25) in a well-characterized cohort of 239 sporadic and autosomal recessive cases of retinitis pigmentosa (arRP).

Methods: : Detailed phenotypic characterization was performed on 239 sporadic and arRP patients including precise family history, best corrected visual acuity, slit lamp examination, kinetic and static perimetry, full field and multifocal ERG according to ISCEV standards, fundus autofluorescence imaging and OCT. Direct sequencing of the 40 coding exons and their flanking intronic regions of EYS was performed in 186 subjects for whom known mutations had previously been excluded by applying microarray technology.

Results: : Fifteen novel mutations that are predicted to lead to a premature termination codon, were identified in 12 patients. Two other patients showed exonic deletions. Missense, silent or splice-site mutations, most of them previously unreported, were found in 15 other patients. Together, 37 likely pathogenic mutations were identified spanning the entire gene. Patients revealed homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations and in some cases, only a severe single mutation predicted to result in a complete functional loss of the protein. Most patients showed classical signs of RP with relatively preserved central vision and visual field until late in the course of the disorder. One patient showed predominance of the disease in the inferior part of the retina resembling sector RP suggesting potential phenotypic variability.

Conclusions: : With a prevalence of 12% or more we provide evidence that EYS is a major gene for RP in France and probably elsewhere.

Keywords: retinal degenerations: hereditary • gene screening • clinical (human) or epidemiologic studies: prevalence/incidence 
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