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OPHTHALMOLOGY
Volume 125, Issue 6, Pages 894-903Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2017.12.013
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- Foundation Fighting Blindness Career Development Award
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Center at Moorfields Eye Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (UK)
- Fight For Sight (UK)
- Moorfields Eye Hospital Special Trustees (UK)
- Moorfields Eye Charity (UK)
- Foundation Fighting Blindness (USA)
- Retinitis Pigmentosa Fighting Blindness (UK)
- Wellcome Trust [099173/Z/12/Z]
- Research to Prevent Blindness USA
- Australian Research Council [FT110100176, DP140102117]
- Australian Research Council [FT110100176] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Purpose: To investigate and describe in detail the demographics, functional and anatomic characteristics, and clinical course of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) associated with mutations in the CEP290 gene (LCA-CEP290) in a large cohort of adults and children. Design: Retrospective case series. Participants: Patients with mutations in CEP290 identified at a single UK referral center. Methods: Review of case notes and results of retinal imaging (color fundus photography, fundus auto-fluorescence [FAF] imaging, OCT), electrophysiologic assessment, and molecular genetic testing. Main Outcome Measures: Molecular genetic testing, clinical findings including visual acuity and retinal imaging, and electrophysiologic assessment. Results: Forty patients with LCA-CEP290 were identified. The deep intronic mutation c. 2991 + 1655 A > G was the most common disease-causing variant (23/40 patients) identified in the compound heterozygous state in 20 patients (50%) and homozygous in 2 patients (5%). Visual acuity (VA) varied from 6/9 to no perception of light, and only 2 of 12 patients with longitudinal VA data showed deterioration in VA in their better-seeing eye over time. A normal fundus was found at diagnosis in younger patients (mean age, 1.9 years), with older patients showing white flecks (mean age, 5.9 years) or pigmentary retinopathy (mean age, 21.7 years). Eleven of 12 patients (92%) with OCT imaging had preservation of foveal architecture. Ten of 12 patients (83%) with FAF imaging had a perifoveal hyperautofluorescent ring. Having 2 nonsense CEP290 mutations was associated with worse final VA and the presence of nonocular features. Conclusions: Detailed analysis of the clinical phenotype of LCA-CEP290 in a large cohort confirms that there is a window of opportunity in childhood for therapeutic intervention based on relative structural preservation in the central cone-rich retina in a significant proportion of patients, with the majority harboring the deep intronic variant potentially tractable to several planned gene editing approaches. (C) 2018 by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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