Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou 510060, China
Abstract
Variants in PRPH2 are a common cause of inherited retinal dystrophies with high genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity. In this study, variants in PRPH2 were selected from in-house exome sequencing data, and all reported PRPH2 variants were evaluated with the assistance of online prediction tools and the comparative validation of large datasets. All variants were classified based on the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics/Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP) guidelines. Individuals with pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants of PRPH2 were confirmed by Sanger sequencing. Clinical characteristics were summarized. Ten pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants of PRPH2 were identified in 14 families. In our cohort, the most frequent variant was p.G305Afs*19, accounting for 33.3% (5/15) of alleles, in contrast to the literature, where p.R172G (11.6%, 119/1028) was the most common variant. Nine in-house families (63.8%) were diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), distinct from the phenotypic spectrum in the literature, which shows that RP accounts for 27.9% (283/1013) and macular degeneration is more common (45.2%, 458/1013). Patients carrying missense variants predicted as damaging by all seven prediction tools and absent in the gnomAD database were more likely to develop RP compared to those carrying missense variants predicted as damaging with fewer tools or with more than one allele number in the gnomAD database (p = 0.001). The population-specific genetic and phenotypic spectra of PRPH2 were explored, and novel insight into the genotype–phenotype correlation of PRPH2 was proposed. These findings demonstrated the importance of assessing PRPH2 variants in distinct populations and the value of providing practical suggestions for the genetic interpretation of PRPH2 variants.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Science and Technology Planning Projects of Guangzhou
Fundamental Research Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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