Punctiform and Polychromatic Pre-Descemet Corneal Dystrophy: Clinical Evaluation and Identification of the Genetic Basis

Autor: Vinay S. Swamy, Doug D Chung, Ana Boto-de-los-Bueis, Olena Al-Shymali, Jorge L. Alió del Barrio, Kavya Jatavallabhula, Anthony J. Aldave, Pilar Yébana, Jorge L. Alió, María Angélica Henríquez-Recine, Alice Barrington
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Peroxiredoxin III
Corneal dystrophy
Ophthalmology & Optometry
medicine.disease_cause
Whole Exome Sequencing
Cornea
0302 clinical medicine
Locus heterogeneity
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
Missense mutation
Aetiology
Child
Tomography
Exome sequencing
Sanger sequencing
Genetics
Corneal Dystrophies
Hereditary

Microscopy
0303 health sciences
Mutation
Microscopy
Confocal

Middle Aged
Phenotype
Biomechanical Phenomena
Pedigree
Hereditary
Confocal
Public Health and Health Services
symbols
Female
Tomography
Optical Coherence

Adult
Corneal Dystrophies
Adolescent
Clinical Sciences
Mutation
Missense

Biology
Article
03 medical and health sciences
symbols.namesake
Young Adult
Clinical Research
Opthalmology and Optometry
Anterior Eye Segment
Exome Sequencing
medicine
Humans
Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision
030304 developmental biology
Aged
Case-control study
medicine.disease
Ophthalmology
Optical Coherence
Case-Control Studies
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
Missense
Zdroj: Am J Ophthalmol
ISSN: 1879-1891
Popis: PURPOSE: To report the clinical features and genetic basis of three previously unreported families with punctiform and polychromatic pre-Descemet corneal dystrophy (PPPCD). DESIGN: Observational case series. METHODS: Full ophthalmic assessment was performed for members of three unreported families with PPPCD. Structural and biomechanical alterations of the cornea were screened. Whole-exome-sequencing (WES) was performed on the first family. Novel or rare variants that segregated with the affected status were screened for in the other two families with Sanger sequencing. Identified variants that segregated with the affected status in all families were characterized using in silico prediction tools and/or in vitro splice assays. Additionally, two previously reported PPPCD families were screened for variants identified in the three unreported PPPCD families. RESULTS: Twelve of 21 examined members of the three unreported families were diagnosed with PPPCD. The only refractive, topographic or biomechanical abnormality associated with PPPCD was a significantly increased corneal stiffness. WES and Sanger sequencing identified two variants that segregated with the affected status in the all three families: a rare intronic PDZD8 c.872+10A>T variant and a novel missense PRDX3 c.568G>C (p.Asp190His) variant. The same PRDX3 variant was identified in the previously reported PPPCD family expressing the common PPPCD phenotype, and is predicted by in silico prediction tools to be damaging to protein function. CONCLUSIONS: PPPCD is associated with an alteration of corneal biomechanics and a novel missense variant in PRDX3. Screening of additional families will determine whether all families demonstrate a PRDX3 variant, or whether locus heterogeneity may exist for PPPCD.
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