Especially convincing are the data from family 7828 (Fig. 2A) indicating that individuals with RP resulting from three separate parental pairs carry the same mutations. This family is from the Dominican Republic, and it is likely that the Leu341Ser allele is fortuitously present in the two unrelated individuals (I-1 and I-8) in the first generation of the pedigree who do not report any consanguinity with their spouses who presumably carry either the same allele (individual I-7) or the mutation Glu404(4-bp ins) (individual I-2). Although family 7828 was originally categorized as showing a recessive inheritance pattern, it was only through analysis of RPE65 that the possibility of different genetic loci causing RP in the three branches was ruled out.
FamilyLabel: Morimura_1998_Family_7828
FamilyPresentingHPOs: HP:0000546 (Retinal degeneration)
FamilyPresentingHPOFreeText: While specific phenotypes are not provided, the diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa indicates that the affected family members maintained central vision during the first decade of life and subsequently experienced severe vision loss.
FamilyNotHPOs: N/A
FamilyNotHPOFreeText: N/A
CountryOrigin: The Dominican Republic
Ethnicity: Not mentioned
Race: Not mentioned
Family#PreviousTesting: All 14 RPE65 exons and flanking sequences were PCR-amplified and subjected to single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis (SSCA).
Family#GenotypingMethod: PCR-amplified exons identified by SSCA as candidates to harbor variants were subjected to Sanger sequencing in the probands and their family members.
Affected: 5
Unaffected: 5
Segregations: The pedigree (Figure 2A) shows 10 segregations, with none inconsistent.
PublishedLOD: N/A
eLOD: 3.03
AddSegregationInfo: While four of the affected family members are compound heterozygotes at the RPE65 locus, one harbors homozygous variants.
ProbandLabel: Morimura_1998_Patient_III-4
Variant: Four affected individuals are compound heterozygotes harboring the NM_000329.3(RPE65):c.1022T>C (p.Leu341Ser) and NM_000329.3(RPE65):c.1207_1210dup (p.Glu404fs) variants, while one affected individual is homozygous for the NM_000329.3(RPE65):c.1022T>C (p.Leu341Ser) variant.
ClinVar: 13118, 98831
gnomAD: Neither the NM_000329.3(RPE65):c.1022T>C (p.Leu341Ser) variant nor the NM_000329.3(RPE65):c.1207_1210dup (p.Glu404fs) variant is found within gnomAD.
FamilyAddInfo: The two variants were confirmed to be in trans, and heterozygous carriers were found to be unaffected. Potential consanguinity between the parents was not reported, at least within the first generation of the pedigree.
FamilyPMIDs: N/A


