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RETINA-THE JOURNAL OF RETINAL AND VITREOUS DISEASES
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 773-782Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000000387
Keywords
autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy; BEST1 gene; deleterious mutations; vitelliform
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- Macula Foundation, Inc by Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Oogziekenhuis Rotterdam
- Rotterdamse Blindenbelangen
- Stichting Blindenhulp
- Gelderse Blinden Stichting
- Landelijke Stichting voor Blinden en Slechtzienden
- National Eye Institute/NIH [EY021163, EY019861, EY018213, EY019007]
- Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, NY
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Purpose: To report the ocular phenotype in patients with autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy and carriers, and to describe novel BEST1 mutations. Methods: Patients with clinically suspected and subsequently genetically proven autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy underwent full ophthalmic examination and investigation with fundus autofluorescence imaging, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, electroretinography, and electrooculography. Mutation analysis of the BEST1 gene was performed through direct Sanger sequencing. Results: Five affected patients from four families were identified. Mean age was 16 years (range, 6-42 years). All affected patients presented with reduced visual acuity and bilateral, hyperautofluorescent subretinal yellowish deposits within the posterior pole. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography demonstrated submacular fluid and subretinal vitelliform material in all patients. A cystoid maculopathy was seen in all but one patient. In 1 patient, the location of the vitelliform material was seen to change over a follow-up period of 3 years despite relatively stable vision. Visual acuity and fundus changes were unresponsive to topical and systemic carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and systemic steroids. Carriers had normal ocular examinations including normal fundus autofluorescence. Three novel mutations were detected. Conclusion: Three novel BEST1 mutations are described, suggesting that many deleterious variants in BEST1 resulting in haploinsufficiency are still unknown. Mutations causing autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy are mostly located outside of the exons that usually harbor vitelliform macular dystrophy-associated dominant mutations.
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