Retinitis Pigmentosa 32

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For a phenotypic description and a discussion of genetic heterogeneity of retinitis pigmentosa, see 268000.

Clinical Features

Zhang et al. (2005) identified a severe form of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in a large consanguineous Pakistani family, in which all affected individuals had night blindness in early childhood, early complete loss of useful vision, and typical RP fundus changes plus macular degeneration.

Mapping

After exclusion of known RP loci in a consanguineous Pakistani family, Zhang et al. (2005) performed a genomewide scan which showed linkage to markers in a 10.5-cM region of chromosome 1p21.2-p13.3, between D1S2896 and D1S457. The highest lod score, 6.54 at theta = 0.0, was obtained at D1S485. Zhang et al. (2005) noted that this locus, designated RP32, lies approximately 4.9 cM from the ABCA4 gene (601691), which was excluded from the linked region.