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    Biallelic Mutations in the Autophagy Regulator DRAM2 Cause Retinal Dystrophy with Early Macular Involvement

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    2015-06
    Author
    El-Asrag, M.E.
    Sergouniotis, P.I.
    McKibbin, M.
    Plagnol, V.
    Sheridan, E.
    Waseem, N.
    Abdelhamed, Z.
    McKeefry, Declan J.
    Van Schil, K.
    Poulter, J.A.
    UK Inherited Retinal Disease Consortium
    Johnson, C.A.
    Carr, I.M.
    Leroy, B.P.
    Baere, E. de
    Inglehearn, C.F.
    Webster, A.R.
    Toomes, C.l.
    Ali, M.
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    Retinal dystrophy; Macular involvement; Central visual loss; Autophagy Regulator DRAM2; Biallelic mutations; Adult base sequence; Exome; Genetics; Great Britain; Homozygote; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Macular degeneration; Pathology; Membrane proteins; Molecular sequence data mutation; Pakistan; Ethnology; Retinal dystrophies; Sequence Aaalysis; DNA
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    Retinal dystrophies are an overlapping group of genetically heterogeneous conditions resulting from mutations in more than 250 genes. Here we describe five families affected by an adult-onset retinal dystrophy with early macular involvement and associated central visual loss in the third or fourth decade of life. Affected individuals were found to harbor disease-causing variants in DRAM2 (DNA-damage regulated autophagy modulator protein 2). Homozygosity mapping and exome sequencing in a large, consanguineous British family of Pakistani origin revealed a homozygous frameshift variant (c.140delG [p.Gly47Valfs∗3]) in nine affected family members. Sanger sequencing of DRAM2 in 322 unrelated probands with retinal dystrophy revealed one European subject with compound heterozygous DRAM2 changes (c.494G>A [p.Trp165∗] and c.131G>A [p.Ser44Asn]). Inspection of previously generated exome sequencing data in unsolved retinal dystrophy cases identified a homozygous variant in an individual of Indian origin (c.64_66del [p.Ala22del]). Independently, a gene-based case-control association study was conducted via an exome sequencing dataset of 18 phenotypically similar case subjects and 1,917 control subjects. Using a recessive model and a binomial test for rare, presumed biallelic, variants, we found DRAM2 to be the most statistically enriched gene; one subject was a homozygote (c.362A>T [p.His121Leu]) and another a compound heterozygote (c.79T>C [p.Tyr27His] and c.217_225del [p.Val73_Tyr75del]). DRAM2 encodes a transmembrane lysosomal protein thought to play a role in the initiation of autophagy. Immunohistochemical analysis showed DRAM2 localization to photoreceptor inner segments and to the apical surface of retinal pigment epithelial cells where it might be involved in the process of photoreceptor renewal and recycling to preserve visual function.
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    El-Asrag EM, Sergouniotis IP, McKibbin M, Plagnol V, Sheridan E, Waseem N, Abdelhamed Z, McKeefry DJ, Poulter JA, UK Inherited Retinal Disease Consortium, Johnson CA, Carr IM, Inglehearn CF, Webster AR, Toomes C and Ali M (2015) Biallelic mutations in the autophagy regulator DRAM2 cause retinal dystrophy with early macular involvement. American Journal of Human Genetics. 96(6): 948-954.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.04.006
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