Dhoble, Pankaja; De Guimarães, Thales AC; Webster, Andrew R; Michaelides, Michel; (2024) Mild retinitis pigmentosa, including sector retinitis pigmentosa associated with 2 pathogenic variants in CDH23. Ophthalmic Genetics 10.1080/13816810.2024.2362210. (In press).

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Abstract

Background: Biallelic pathogenic variants in CDH23 can cause Usher syndrome type I (USH1), typically characterized by sensorineural hearing loss, variable vestibular areflexia, and a progressive form of rod-cone dystrophy. While missense variants in CDH23 can cause DFNB12 deafness, other variants can affect the cadherin 23 function, more severely causing Usher syndrome type I D. The main purpose of our study is to describe the genotypes and phenotypes of patients with mild retinitis pigmentosa (RP), including sector RP with two pathogenic variants in CDH23. // Materials and methods: Clinical examination included medical history, comprehensive ophthalmologic examination, and multimodal retinal imaging, and in case 1 and 2, full-field electroretinography (ERG). Genetic analysis was performed in all cases, and segregation testing of proband relatives was performed in case 1 and 3. // Results: Three unrelated cases presented with variable clinical phenotype for USH1 and were found to have two pathogenic variants in CDH23, with missense variant, c.5237 G > A: p.Arg1746Gln being common to all. All probands had mild to profound hearing loss. Case 1 and 3 had mild RP with mid peripheral and posterior pole sparing, while case 2 had sector RP. ERG results were consistent with the marked loss of retinal function in both eyes at the level of photoreceptor in case 1 and case 2, with normal peak time in the former. // Conclusion: Patients harbouring c.5237 G > A: p.Arg1746Gln variants in CDH23 can present with a mild phenotype including sector RP. This can aid in better genetic counselling and in prognostication.

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