Jorge L Alió Del Barrio1, Doug D Chung2, Olena Al-Shymali3, Alice Barrington2, Kavya Jatavallabhula2, Vinay S Swamy2, Pilar Yébana3, Maria Angélica Henríquez-Recine4, Ana Boto-de-Los-Bueis4, Jorge L Alió1, Anthony J Aldave5. 1. Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Unit, Vissum Corporación, Alicante, Spain; Division of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain. 2. Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. 3. Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Unit, Vissum Corporación, Alicante, Spain. 4. Ophthalmology Department, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. 5. Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. Electronic address: aldave@jsei.ucla.edu.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study reports the clinical features and genetic bases of 3 previously unreported families with punctiform and polychromatic pre-Descemet corneal dystrophy (PPPCD). DESIGN: Observational case series. METHODS: Full ophthalmic assessment was performed for members of 3 unreported families with PPPCD. Structural and biomechanical alterations of the cornea were screened. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed in the first family. Novel or rare variants that segregated with the affected status were screened in the other 2 families using Sanger sequencing. Identified variants that segregated with the affected status in all families were characterized by using in silico prediction tools and/or in vitro splice assays. Additionally, 2 previously reported PPPCD families were screened for variants identified in the 3 unreported PPPCD families. RESULTS: PPPCD was diagnosed in 12 of the 21 examined members of the 3 unreported families. The only refractive, topographic, or biomechanical abnormality associated with PPPCD was a significantly increased corneal stiffness. WES and Sanger sequencing identified 2 variants that segregated with the affected status in all 3 families: a rare intronic PDZD8 c.872+10A>T variant and a novel missense PRDX3 c.568G>C (p.Asp190His) variant. The same PRDX3 variant was identified in the previously reported PPPCD family expressing the common PPPCD phenotype and was predicted by in silico prediction tools to be damaging to protein function. CONCLUSIONS: PPPCD is associated with an alteration of corneal biomechanics and a novel missense variant in PRDX3. Screening of additional families will determine whether all families demonstrate a PRDX3 variant or whether locus heterogeneity may exist for PPPCD.
PURPOSE: This study reports the clinical features and genetic bases of 3 previously unreported families with punctiform and polychromatic pre-Descemet corneal dystrophy (PPPCD). DESIGN: Observational case series. METHODS: Full ophthalmic assessment was performed for members of 3 unreported families with PPPCD. Structural and biomechanical alterations of the cornea were screened. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed in the first family. Novel or rare variants that segregated with the affected status were screened in the other 2 families using Sanger sequencing. Identified variants that segregated with the affected status in all families were characterized by using in silico prediction tools and/or in vitro splice assays. Additionally, 2 previously reported PPPCD families were screened for variants identified in the 3 unreported PPPCD families. RESULTS: PPPCD was diagnosed in 12 of the 21 examined members of the 3 unreported families. The only refractive, topographic, or biomechanical abnormality associated with PPPCD was a significantly increased corneal stiffness. WES and Sanger sequencing identified 2 variants that segregated with the affected status in all 3 families: a rare intronic PDZD8 c.872+10A>T variant and a novel missense PRDX3 c.568G>C (p.Asp190His) variant. The same PRDX3 variant was identified in the previously reported PPPCD family expressing the common PPPCD phenotype and was predicted by in silico prediction tools to be damaging to protein function. CONCLUSIONS: PPPCD is associated with an alteration of corneal biomechanics and a novel missense variant in PRDX3. Screening of additional families will determine whether all families demonstrate a PRDX3 variant or whether locus heterogeneity may exist for PPPCD.
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