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Ophthalmic researchNov 2021 DOI:
10.1159/000520895

Genetic analysis of consanguineous Pakistani families with congenital stationary night blindness

Azhar Baig, Hafiz Muhammad; Ansar, Muhammad; Iqbal, Afia; Naeem, Muhammad Asif; Quinodoz, Mathieu; Calzetti, Giacomo; Iqbal, Muhammad; Rivolta, Carlo
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NGS
Abstract
Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is a rare, largely non progressive, inherited retinal disorder that can be clinically classified on the basis of fundus and electroretinogram (ERG) abnormalities.We analyzed four large consanguineous families from the Southern Punjab region of Pakistan including multiple individuals affected with CSNB. Exome sequencing (ES) was performed in probands of all four families; Sanger sequencing was performed in additional members to test co-segregation of the variants identified.We identified two novel and likely pathogenic variants in two pedigrees, namely NM_002905.4:c.668A>C (p.Gln223Pro) in RDH5, and NM_022567.2:c.908del (p.Gly303ValfsTer45) in NYX. In the two other families, the variants NM_002905.4:c.319G>C (p.Gly107Arg) in RDH5 and NM_000541.5:c.874C>T (p.Arg292Ter) in SAG were identified. These variants have been reported previously, but not in the Pakistani population.Our findings expand the mutational spectrum of CSNB, in particular within the population of Southern Punjab.The Author(s).
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