Daich Varela, Malena;
Duignan, Emma S;
De Silva, Samantha R;
Ba-Abbad, Rola;
Fujinami-Yokokawa, Yu;
Leo, Shaun;
Fujinami, Kaoru;
... Michaelides, Michel; + view all
(2023)
CERKL-associated retinal dystrophy: Genetics, Phenotype and Natural History.
Ophthalmology Retina
10.1016/j.oret.2023.06.007.
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Abstract
PURPOSE: To analyze the clinical characteristics, natural history, and genetics of CERKL-associated retinal dystrophy in the largest series to date. DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: 47 patients (37 families) with likely disease-causing CERKL variants METHODS: Review of clinical notes, ophthalmic images, and molecular diagnosis from two international centres. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Visual function, retinal imaging and characteristics were evaluated and correlated. RESULTS: The mean age at the first visit was 29.6 + 13.9 years and the mean follow-up time was 9.1 + 7.4 years. The most frequent initial symptom was central vision loss (40%) and the most common retinal feature was well-demarcated areas of macular atrophy (57%). Seventy percent of the participants had double-null genotypes and 64% had electrophysiological assessment. Amongst the latter, 53% showed similar severity of rod and cone dysfunction, 27% revealed a rod-cone, 10% a cone-rod, and 10% a macular dystrophy dysfunction pattern. Patients without double-null genotypes tended to have fewer pigment deposits and included a higher proportion of older patients with a relatively mild electrophysiological phenotype. Longitudinal analysis showed that over half of the cohort lost 15 ETDRS letters or more in at least one eye during the first 5 years of follow up. CONCLUSIONS: The phenotype of CERKL-retinal dystrophy is broad, encompassing isolated macular disease to severe retina-wide involvement, with a range of functional phenotypes, generally not fitting in the rod-cone/cone-rod dichotomy. Disease onset is often earlier, with more severe retinal degenerative changes and photoreceptor dysfunction, in nullizygous cases.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | CERKL-associated retinal dystrophy: Genetics, Phenotype and Natural History |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.oret.2023.06.007 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oret.2023.06.007 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172446 |
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