Photoreceptor degeneration: genetic and mechanistic dissection of a complex trait.

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Published in Nat Rev Genet on April 01, 2010

Authors

Alan F Wright1, Christina F Chakarova, Mai M Abd El-Aziz, Shomi S Bhattacharya

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1: MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. alan.wright@hgu.mrc.ac.uk

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Prevalence and novelty of PRPF31 mutations in French autosomal dominant rod-cone dystrophy patients and a review of published reports. BMC Med Genet (2010) 1.03

TOPORS, implicated in retinal degeneration, is a cilia-centrosomal protein. Hum Mol Genet (2010) 1.01

Copy-number variations in EYS: a significant event in the appearance of arRP. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2011) 1.01

Investigating the association between OPA1 polymorphisms and glaucoma: comparison between normal tension and high tension primary open angle glaucoma. Hum Genet (2002) 1.00

Molecular genetics of retinitis pigmentosa in two Romani (Gypsy) families. Mol Vis (2006) 0.98

Novel anterior segment phenotypes resulting from forkhead gene alterations: evidence for cross-species conservation of function. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2003) 0.97

Mutations in splicing factor PRPF3, causing retinal degeneration, form detrimental aggregates in photoreceptor cells. Hum Mol Genet (2007) 0.96

RDH12 retinopathy: novel mutations and phenotypic description. Mol Vis (2011) 0.96

Identification of novel mutations in the carbohydrate sulfotransferase gene (CHST6) causing macular corneal dystrophy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2002) 0.95

Study of gene-targeted mouse models of splicing factor gene Prpf31 implicated in human autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2009) 0.94

Three gene-targeted mouse models of RNA splicing factor RP show late-onset RPE and retinal degeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2011) 0.94

Disease-causing mutations in BEST1 gene are associated with altered sorting of bestrophin-1 protein. Int J Mol Sci (2013) 0.94

Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa with intrafamilial variability and incomplete penetrance in two families carrying mutations in PRPF8. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2011) 0.92

Derivation of cerebellar neurons from human pluripotent stem cells. Curr Protoc Stem Cell Biol (2012) 0.92

Developmental expression profile of the optic atrophy gene product: OPA1 is not localized exclusively in the mammalian retinal ganglion cell layer. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2004) 0.91

The ABCA4 2588G>C Stargardt mutation: single origin and increasing frequency from South-West to North-East Europe. Eur J Hum Genet (2002) 0.91

RP1 and autosomal dominant rod-cone dystrophy: novel mutations, a review of published variants, and genotype-phenotype correlation. Hum Mutat (2011) 0.90

High prevalence of posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy in the Czech Republic; linkage disequilibrium mapping and dating an ancestral mutation. PLoS One (2012) 0.90

A novel 1-bp deletion in PITX3 causing congenital posterior polar cataract. Mol Vis (2011) 0.90

A study of the nuclear trafficking of the splicing factor protein PRPF31 linked to autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP). Biochim Biophys Acta (2006) 0.89

Novel GUCA1A mutations suggesting possible mechanisms of pathogenesis in cone, cone-rod, and macular dystrophy patients. Biomed Res Int (2013) 0.89

Wolfram gene (WFS1) mutation causes autosomal dominant congenital nuclear cataract in humans. Eur J Hum Genet (2013) 0.88

Hypoxia enhances the generation of retinal progenitor cells from human induced pluripotent and embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells Dev (2011) 0.88

A clinical and molecular genetic study of Egyptian and Saudi Arabian patients with primary congenital glaucoma (PCG). J Glaucoma (2007) 0.88

Expression of PRPF31 and TFPT: regulation in health and retinal disease. Hum Mol Genet (2012) 0.88

The Roles of PAX6 and SOX2 in Myopia: lessons from the 1958 British Birth Cohort. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2007) 0.88

Study of p.N247S KERA mutation in a British family with cornea plana. Mol Vis (2007) 0.88

Dominant PRPF31 mutations are hypostatic to a recessive CNOT3 polymorphism in retinitis pigmentosa: a novel phenomenon of "linked trans-acting epistasis". Ann Hum Genet (2013) 0.87

Hypoxia increases the yield of photoreceptors differentiating from mouse embryonic stem cells and improves the modeling of retinogenesis in vitro. Stem Cells (2013) 0.87

Novel C2orf71 mutations account for ∼1% of cases in a large French arRP cohort. Hum Mutat (2011) 0.87

A 112 kb deletion in chromosome 19q13.42 leads to retinitis pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2011) 0.87

Evidence for keratoconus susceptibility locus on chromosome 14: a genome-wide linkage screen using single-nucleotide polymorphism markers. Arch Ophthalmol (2010) 0.87

Disease mechanism for retinitis pigmentosa (RP11) caused by missense mutations in the splicing factor gene PRPF31. Mol Vis (2008) 0.87

Cross species analysis of Prominin reveals a conserved cellular role in invertebrate and vertebrate photoreceptor cells. Dev Biol (2012) 0.86

ATR localizes to the photoreceptor connecting cilium and deficiency leads to severe photoreceptor degeneration in mice. Hum Mol Genet (2013) 0.85

A clinical and molecular genetic study of autosomal-dominant stromal corneal dystrophy in British population. Ophthalmic Res (2005) 0.84

Prognosis for splicing factor PRPF8 retinitis pigmentosa, novel mutations and correlation between human and yeast phenotypes. Hum Mutat (2010) 0.84

Phenotype associated with the H626P mutation and other changes in the TGFBI gene in Czech families. Ophthalmic Res (2008) 0.82

Novel CHST6 nonsense and missense mutations responsible for macular corneal dystrophy. Am J Ophthalmol (2005) 0.81

Concise review: reactive astrocytes and stem cells in spinal cord injury: good guys or bad guys? Stem Cells (2015) 0.81

Brief report: astrogliosis promotes functional recovery of completely transected spinal cord following transplantation of hESC-derived oligodendrocyte and motoneuron progenitors. Stem Cells (2014) 0.81

Phenotype of retinitis pigmentosa associated with the Ser50Thr mutation in the NRL gene. Arch Ophthalmol (2003) 0.81