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Phenotype Analysis of Retinal Dystrophies in Light of the Underlying Genetic Defects: Application to Cone and Cone-Rod Dystrophies.


ABSTRACT: Phenotypes observed in a large cohort of patients with cone and cone-rod dystrophies (COD/CORDs) are described based on multimodal retinal imaging features in order to help in analyzing massive next-generation sequencing data. Structural abnormalities of 58 subjects with molecular diagnosis of COD/CORDs were analyzed through specific retinal imaging including spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and fundus autofluorescence (BAF/IRAF). Findings were analyzed with the underlying genetic defects. A ring of increased autofluorescence was mainly observed in patients with CRX and GUCY2D mutations (33% and 22% of cases respectively). "Speckled" autofluorescence was observed with mutations in three different genes (ABCA4 64%; C2Orf71 and PRPH2, 18% each). Peripapillary sparing was only found in association with mutations in ABCA4, although only present in 40% of such genotypes. Regarding SD-OCT, specific outer retinal abnormalities were more commonly observed in particular genotypes: focal retrofoveal interruption and GUCY2D mutations (50%), foveal sparing and CRX mutations (50%), and outer retinal atrophy associated with hyperreflective dots and ABCA4 mutations (69%). This study outlines the phenotypic heterogeneity of COD/CORDs hampering statistical correlations. A larger study correlating retinal imaging with genetic results is necessary to identify specific clinical features that may help in selecting pathogenic variants generated by high-throughput sequencing.

SUBMITTER: Boulanger-Scemama E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Phenotype Analysis of Retinal Dystrophies in Light of the Underlying Genetic Defects: Application to Cone and Cone-Rod Dystrophies.

Boulanger-Scemama Elise E   Mohand-Saïd Saddek S   El Shamieh Said S   Démontant Vanessa V   Condroyer Christel C   Antonio Aline A   Michiels Christelle C   Boyard Fiona F   Saraiva Jean-Paul JP   Letexier Mélanie M   Sahel José-Alain JA   Zeitz Christina C   Audo Isabelle I  

International journal of molecular sciences 20190930 19


Phenotypes observed in a large cohort of patients with cone and cone-rod dystrophies (COD/CORDs) are described based on multimodal retinal imaging features in order to help in analyzing massive next-generation sequencing data. Structural abnormalities of 58 subjects with molecular diagnosis of COD/CORDs were analyzed through specific retinal imaging including spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and fundus autofluorescence (BAF/IRAF). Findings were analyzed with the underlying g  ...[more]

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