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Mutations in PCDH21 cause autosomal recessive cone-rod dystrophy.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Cone-rod dystrophy is a retinal dystrophy with early loss of cone photoreceptors and a parallel or subsequent loss of rod photoreceptors. It may be syndromic, but most forms are non-syndromic with autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive inheritance. METHODS AND RESULTS: We identified a small consanguineous family with six patients with cone-rod dystrophy from the Faroe Islands. Homozygosity mapping revealed a single homozygous locus of 4.2 Mb on chromosome 10q23.1-q23.2, encompassing 11 genes. All patients were homozygous for a 1-bp duplication in PCDH21, c.524dupA, which results in a frameshift and a premature stop codon (p.Q175QfsX47). CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of mutations in PCDH21 as a cause of human disease. PCDH21 is highly expressed in the retinal photoreceptor cells. It encodes protocadherin 21, which belongs to the cadherin superfamily of large cell surface proteins characterised by a variable number of extracellular cadherin domains. A PCDH21 knockout mouse model has previously shown loss of photoreceptor cells and abnormal cone and rod function, similar to the findings in the patients.

SUBMITTER: Ostergaard E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2976051 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mutations in PCDH21 cause autosomal recessive cone-rod dystrophy.

Ostergaard E E   Batbayli M M   Duno M M   Vilhelmsen K K   Rosenberg T T  

Journal of medical genetics 20100830 10

<h4>Background</h4>Cone-rod dystrophy is a retinal dystrophy with early loss of cone photoreceptors and a parallel or subsequent loss of rod photoreceptors. It may be syndromic, but most forms are non-syndromic with autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive inheritance.<h4>Methods and results</h4>We identified a small consanguineous family with six patients with cone-rod dystrophy from the Faroe Islands. Homozygosity mapping revealed a single homozygous locus of 4.2 Mb on chr  ...[more]

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