July 2019
Volume 60, Issue 9
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   July 2019
Screening of high myopia in non-human primates
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • qiang lin
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Rui Lin
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Kun-Chao Wu
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Guang-Hui Jin
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Ren-Juan Shen
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Wei-Qin Liu
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Zhen-Ji Chen
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Kai Ming Zhang
    Division of Ophthalmology, Kunming Biomed International (KBI), Kunming, China
  • Zi-Bing Jin
    Laboratory for Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration - Institute of Stem Cell Research - Division of Ophthalmic Genetics - The Eye Hospital - Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   qiang lin, None; Rui Lin, None; Kun-Chao Wu, None; Guang-Hui Jin, None; Ren-Juan Shen, None; Wei-Qin Liu, None; Zhen-Ji Chen, None; Kai Ming Zhang, None; Zi-Bing Jin, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science July 2019, Vol.60, 5870. doi:
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      qiang lin, Rui Lin, Kun-Chao Wu, Guang-Hui Jin, Ren-Juan Shen, Wei-Qin Liu, Zhen-Ji Chen, Kai Ming Zhang, Zi-Bing Jin; Screening of high myopia in non-human primates. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2019;60(9):5870.

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Abstract

Purpose : High myopia is the leading cause of visual morbidity. However, there are no reliable models that accurately recapitulate the disease traits of high myopia. We attempted to screen high myopia in macaque fascicularis population.

Methods : Ophthalmic examinations including refraction, axial length, fundography and optical coherence tomography(OCT) were measured with auto-refractor, IOL-master, fundus photography and OCT respectively. Individuals with SE <= -6.00, tigroid fundus and longer axis(>= 19mm) were define as high myopia.
DNA were extracted from 20 nomal and 19 high myopia individuals’ blood and whole-genome sequencing were performed to screen case-specific mutations in known genes. Subsequent validation in 60 other individuals was taken to identify candidate mutation sites.
Disease causing potential of selected mutations were predicted in database with their human homologies.

Results : Overall, 322 NHPs were screened and 73 monkeys show high myopia making the morbidity up to 22.7%.
Comparative genome analysis in 20 controls and 19 cases showed 38 case-group-specific mutations in 12 candidate genes, 3 out of 28 conservative mutations between human and macaque exhibited the most disease causing possibility in all predicted database in their human homologies which were never reported before.

Conclusions : The high morbidity of high myopia in monkey population mainly due to genetic influence making us an ideal model to study underlying genetic mechanisms.
Although lacking family information, whole genome sequencing revealed 3 potential disease causing mutations which were not previously reported in their human homology studies hinted new pathogenic sites while dealing with human high myopia.

This abstract was presented at the 2019 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Vancouver, Canada, April 28 - May 2, 2019.

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