Tsz Kin Ng1,2,3, Yingjie Cao1, Xiang-Ling Yuan1,2, Shaowan Chen1, Yanxuan Xu1, Shao-Lang Chen1, Yuqian Zheng1, Haoyu Chen4. 1. Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, Guangdong, China. 2. Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China. 3. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 4. Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, Guangdong, China. drchenhaoyu@gmail.com.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To delineate the disease-causing mutations of the Stargardt disease-related genes in Chinese patients diagnosed with Stargardt disease or retinitis pigmentosa (RP) by whole exome sequencing analysis. METHODS: A total of 123 sporadic RP or Stargardt disease patients and 2 Stargardt disease families were recruited. All sporadic patients and the probands of the families were subjected to whole exome sequencing analysis. The candidate mutations were verified by direct sequencing based on the cosegregation pattern and in 200 control subjects and by the bioinformatics analyses. RESULTS: A total of three reported ABCA4 mutations were identified in the probands of the two Stargardt disease families. The probands and the affected family members with either homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations showed typical Stargardt disease features, which was absent in their unaffected family members. The cosegregation pattern confirmed the mode of recessive inheritance. Moreover, two sporadic Stargardt disease patients were identified to carry two novel ABCA4 and one PROM1 mutations. In addition, 13 novel variants were found in 119 sporadic RP patients in 7 Stargardt disease-related genes, and 8 novel missense variants were conserved across different species and predicted to be damaging to the protein. All 15 novel variants were absent in our 200 control subjects. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed 22.4% study subjects carrying Stargardt disease-related gene mutations with total 15 novel variants in seven Stargardt disease-related genes, assuring that targeted next-generation sequencing analysis is a high throughput strategy to facilitate the clinical diagnosis from suspicious patients and recommended as a routine examination for inherited retinal dystrophies.
OBJECTIVES: To delineate the disease-causing mutations of the Stargardt disease-related genes in Chinese patients diagnosed with Stargardt disease or retinitis pigmentosa (RP) by whole exome sequencing analysis. METHODS: A total of 123 sporadic RP or Stargardt disease patients and 2 Stargardt disease families were recruited. All sporadic patients and the probands of the families were subjected to whole exome sequencing analysis. The candidate mutations were verified by direct sequencing based on the cosegregation pattern and in 200 control subjects and by the bioinformatics analyses. RESULTS: A total of three reported ABCA4 mutations were identified in the probands of the two Stargardt disease families. The probands and the affected family members with either homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations showed typical Stargardt disease features, which was absent in their unaffected family members. The cosegregation pattern confirmed the mode of recessive inheritance. Moreover, two sporadic Stargardt disease patients were identified to carry two novel ABCA4 and one PROM1 mutations. In addition, 13 novel variants were found in 119 sporadic RP patients in 7 Stargardt disease-related genes, and 8 novel missense variants were conserved across different species and predicted to be damaging to the protein. All 15 novel variants were absent in our 200 control subjects. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed 22.4% study subjects carrying Stargardt disease-related gene mutations with total 15 novel variants in seven Stargardt disease-related genes, assuring that targeted next-generation sequencing analysis is a high throughput strategy to facilitate the clinical diagnosis from suspicious patients and recommended as a routine examination for inherited retinal dystrophies.
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