Mutations in the human retinal degeneration slow gene in autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.
The murine retinal degeneration slow (rds) gene is a semidominant mutation with a phenotype having rod and cone photoreceptors that develop abnormally and then slowly degenerate. The phenotype is a possible model for retinitis pigmentosa, one of the scores of hereditary human retinal degenerations, which is also characterized by photoreceptor degeneration. We report here three mutations of the human homologue of the rds gene (RDS) that cosegregate with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa in separate families. Our results indicate that some cases of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa are due to mutations at the RDS locus.
Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston 02114.
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D000328:Adult; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002648:Child; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004596:Electroretinography; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant / Q000235:genetics*; D008040:Genetic Linkage / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D010375:Pedigree; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012174:Retinitis Pigmentosa / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid