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SUBMITTER: Zhang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240732 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Lin L Sun Zixi Z Zhao Peiquan P Huang Lulin L Xu Mingchu M Yang Yeming Y Chen Xue X Lu Fang F Zhang Xiang X Wang Hui H Zhang Shanshan S Liu Wenjing W Jiang Zhilin Z Ma Shi S Chen Rui R Zhao Chen C Yang Zhenglin Z Sui Ruifang R Zhu Xianjun X
Human molecular genetics 20181201 23
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inheritable retina degenerative disease leading to blindness. Despite the identification of 70 genes associated with RP, the genetic cause of ∼40% of RP patients remains to be elucidated. Whole-exome sequencing was applied on the probands of a RP cohort of 68 unsolved cases to identify candidate genetic mutations. A homozygous missense variant (c.173C > T, p.T58 M) was found in HKDC1 in two unrelated families presenting late-onset retinal degeneration. This varian ...[more]