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Differentiation, Maintenance, and Analysis of Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells: A Disease-in-a-dish Model for BEST1 Mutations
Published on: August 24, 2018
Clinical and genetic characterization of BEST1-associated retinal dystrophies in the Norwegian population
Erlend Sæther1, Geir Bertelsen1,2, Ragnheidur Bragadottir3,4
1Faculty of Health Sciences, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Purpose:
BEST1 variants are the third leading cause of inherited retinal dystrophies in Norway. The purpose of this study was to describe the BEST1-associated retinal dystrophy (BEST1-RD) population genetically and clinically, and to determine the prevalence of BEST1-RD in Southern and Eastern Norway.
Methods:
This registry-based study used the Oslo University Hospital Inherited Retinal Disease registry for genetic data and extracted clinical data from medical records.
Results:
Sixty patients were included. The prevalence of BEST1-RD in Southern and Eastern Norway was between 1:64 600 and 1:43 700. Forty-one patients were diagnosed with Best's vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD), 15 with autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy (ARB) and 4 with autosomal dominant vitreoretinochoroidopathy (ADVIRC). The two most common genotypes were c.403G>A and c.89A>G. These variants were associated with BVMD and a later age of onset compared with other BVMD-associated genotypes.
Conclusion:
The prevalence of BEST1-RD in Southern and Eastern Norway was between 1:64 600 and 1:43 700. BVMD patients carrying c.403G>A or c.89A>G had a later age of onset than BVMD patients carrying other variants.
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