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A family with RP3 type of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa: an association with ciliary abnormalities

✍ Scribed by Dieuwke B. Dorp; Alan F. Wright; Andrew D. Carothers; Elizabeth M. Bleeker-Wagemakers

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 446 KB
Volume: 88
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-6717
DOI: 10.1007/bf00197269

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✦ Synopsis

The results of linkage analysis in a family with X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) are presented. Probe M27B (DXS255), localised to Xpll.22, was only loosely linked to XLRP, whereas pHOC3 (OTC), in the more distal Xp21.1 region, was tightly linked. In this family, the conditional probability of an RP3 locus (in Xp21.1-pll.4) was found to be 0.978 compared with 0.021 for an RP2 locus (in Xpll.4-pll.2). Risk assessment showed that 2 out of 4 "at risk" females showing no clinical abnormality have a high probability of being genetic carriers of XLRP. Some affected males have recurrent respiratory infections as a result of a condition indistinguishable from the immotile cilia syndrome; indeed, there is an association between XLRP and susceptibility to respiratory infections in the majority of affected males. The possibility that previously observed ciliary abnormalities in XLRP patients might be associated specifically with an RP3 locus abnormality is discussed.

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