A new autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa locus maps on chromosome 2q31-q33.

M Bayés, B Goldaracena, A Martínez-Mir, M I Iragui-Madoz, T Solans, P Chivelet, E Bussaglia, M A Ramos-Arroyo, M Baiget, L Vilageliu, S Balcells, R Gonzàlez-Duarte, D Grinberg

Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (ARRP) is a genetically heterogeneous disease. To date, mutations in four members of the phototransduction cascade have been implicated in ARRP. Additionally, linkage of the disease to three loci on 1p, 1q, and 6p has been described. However, the majority of cases are still uncharacterised. We have performed linkage analysis in a large nuclear ARRP family with five affected sibs. After exclusion of several regions of the genome known to contain loci for retinal dystrophies, a genomic search for linkage to ARRP was undertaken. Positive lod scores were obtained with markers on 2q31-q33 (Zmax at theta = 0.00 of 4.03, 4.12, and 4.12 at D2S364, D2S118, and D2S389, respectively) defining an interval of about 7 cM for this new ARRP locus, between D2S148 and D2S161. Forty-four out of 47 additional ARRP families, tested with markers on 2q32, failed to show linkage, providing evidence of further genetic heterogeneity.

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