• Ningxia People's Hospital, Ningxia Eye Hospital, Ningxia 750004, China;
ShengXunlun, Email: shengxunlun@163.com
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Objective To observe the disease-causing genes and the inheritance in sporadic retinitis pigmentosa (sRP) in Ningxia region. Methods 49 sRP patients and 128 family members were recruited for this study. All the patients and family members received complete ophthalmic examinations including best corrected visual acuity, slit-lamp microscope, indirect ophthalmoscopy, fundus color photography, visual field, optic coherence tomography, full view electroretinogram. DNA was extracted from patients and family members. Using exon combined target region capture sequencing chip to screen the 230 candidate disease-causing gene mutations, polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing were used to confirm the disease-causing mutations. Results 24/49 patients (49.0%) had identified disease-causing genes, totally 16 genes were involved. There were 41 mutation sites were found, including 32 new mutations (78.0%). The disease-causing genes include USH2A, C2orf71, GNGA1, RPGR1, IFT140, TULP1, CLRN1, RPE65, ABCA4, GUCA1, EYS, CYP4V2, GPR98 and ATXN7. Based on pedigree analysis, 20 patients were autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa, 3 patients were autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and 1 patient was X linked retinitis pigmentosa. 3/7 patients with USH2A mutations were identified as Usher syndrome. Conclusions USHZA is the main disease-causing of sRP patients in Ningxia region. 83.3% of sRP in this cohort are autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa.

Citation: GuoHuiqing, ShengXunlun. Analysis of mutations of disease-causing gene and the inheritance in sporadic retinitis pigmentosa. Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases, 2016, 32(6): 576-581. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1005-1015.2016.06.004 Copy

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