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Pathogenic variants in IMPG1 cause autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa
  1. Guillaume Olivier1,2,
  2. Marta Corton3,
  3. Daniela Intartaglia4,
  4. Sanne K Verbakel5,
  5. Panagiotis I Sergouniotis6,
  6. Guylène Le Meur7,
  7. Claire-Marie Dhaenens8,9,
  8. Hélène Naacke10,
  9. Almudena Avila-Fernández3,
  10. Carel B Hoyng5,
  11. Jeroen Klevering5,
  12. Béatrice Bocquet1,2,
  13. Agathe Roubertie11,12,
  14. Audrey Sénéchal1,2,
  15. Sandro Banfi13,
  16. Agnès Muller1,2,
  17. Christian L Hamel14,
  18. Graeme C Black15,
  19. Ivan Conte4,16,
  20. Susanne Roosing5,
  21. Xavier Zanlonghi17,
  22. Carmen Ayuso3,18,
  23. Isabelle Meunier1,19,
  24. Gaël Manes1,2
  1. 1 Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
  2. 2 Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, INSERM U1051, Montpellier, France
  3. 3 Department of Genetics & Genomics, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM)—Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases—(CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
  4. 4 Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Pozzuoli (NA), and Medical Genetics, Naples, Italy
  5. 5 Department of Ophthalmology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  6. 6 Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
  7. 7 Service Ophtalmologie, CHU Nantes, Nantes Université, Nantes, France
  8. 8 University Lille-Nord de France, INSERM U837, Lille, France
  9. 9 Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, LilNCog, Lille, France
  10. 10 Service d'ophtalmologie, Clinique Saint Joseph, Angouleme, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
  11. 11 Département de Neuropédiatrie, CHU Montpellier, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier, Hérault, France
  12. 12 Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, INSERM U1051, Montpellier, Hérault, France
  13. 13 Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy
  14. 14 Service d'ophtalmologie, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France
  15. 15 Department of Genetic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  16. 16 Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Campania, Italy
  17. 17 Institut Ophtalmologique de l’Ouest, Eye Clinic Jules Verne, Nantes, France
  18. 18 Department of Genetics & Genomics, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red (CIBER) de Enfermedades Raras, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
  19. 19 National Centre in Rare Diseases, Genetics of Sensory Diseases, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gaël Manes, University of Montpellier, Montpellier 34000, France; gael.manes{at}inserm.fr

Abstract

Background Inherited retinal disorders are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of conditions and a major cause of visual impairment. Common disease subtypes include vitelliform macular dystrophy (VMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Despite the identification of over 90 genes associated with RP, conventional genetic testing fails to detect a molecular diagnosis in about one third of patients with RP.

Methods Exome sequencing was carried out for identifying the disease-causing gene in a family with autosomal dominant RP. Gene panel testing and exome sequencing were performed in 596 RP and VMD families to identified additional IMPG1 variants. In vivo analysis in the medaka fish system by knockdown assays was performed to screen IMPG1 possible pathogenic role.

Results Exome sequencing of a family with RP revealed a splice variant in IMPG1. Subsequently, the same variant was identified in individuals from two families with either RP or VMD. A retrospective study of patients with RP or VMD revealed eight additional families with different missense or nonsense variants in IMPG1. In addition, the clinical diagnosis of the IMPG1 retinopathy-associated variant, originally described as benign concentric annular macular dystrophy, was also revised to RP with early macular involvement. Using morpholino-mediated ablation of Impg1 and its paralog Impg2 in medaka fish, we confirmed a phenotype consistent with that observed in the families, including a decreased length of rod and cone photoreceptor outer segments.

Conclusion This study discusses a previously unreported association between monoallelic or biallelic IMPG1 variants and RP. Notably, similar observations have been reported for IMPG2.

  • genetics
  • sequence analysis
  • ophthalmology
  • eye diseases

Data availability statement

Data are available on reasonable request. All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as online supplementary information. Our exome sequencing data are in NCBI BioProject Sequence Read Archive (SRA) accession: PRJNA636189.

https://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2020-107150

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    Data availability statement

    Data are available on reasonable request. All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as online supplementary information. Our exome sequencing data are in NCBI BioProject Sequence Read Archive (SRA) accession: PRJNA636189.

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    • Contributors GO, MC, C-MD, AA-F, BB, AS performed sequencing analyses. GO, DI, IC performed the in vivo studies. SKV, PIS, GLM, HN, AR, GCB, CLH, JK, XZ, IM collected clinical cases and performed clinical examinations of patients. GM, SR, IC, SB, AM, CA, CBH designed the study. GM, IM, SR, PIS, SKV, C-MD drafted the manuscript. All authors revised the manuscript.

    • Funding The work of GM is supported by SOS Rétinite Pigmentaire foundation (#20142016/1051). The work of GO was funded by the associations Valentin Haüy/Retina France fellowship (#RAK18006FFA). This project was funded by the French Foundation for Rare Disease (#201607), by grants from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) from the Spanish Ministry of Health, including CIBERER (06/07/0036), IIS-FJD Biobank (PT13/0010/0012) and FIS (PI16/00425); and from the regional government of Madrid, RAREGenomics-CM (CAM, B2017/BMD-3721). MC is supported by the Miguel Servet Program (CP12/03256) from ISCIII. This research was supported by the Laboratory of Excellence GENMED-Medical Genomics (ANR-10-LABX-0013) managed by the National Research Agency (ANR) part of the Investment for the Future programme. IFB acknowledges funding by the call “Infrastructures in Biology and Health” in the framework of the French “Investments for the Future” (ANR-11-INBS-0013) initiative, and EU H2020 projects CYCLONE (644925), EXCELERATE (676559) and EGI-Engage (654142). IFB is the French ELIXIR node. The work of SR is supported by the Foundation Fighting Blindness USA Project Program Award (PPA-0517-0717-RAD), the Rotterdamse Stichting Blindenbelangen, the Stichting Blindenhulp, the Stichting tot Verbetering van het Lot der Blinden and the Stichting Blinden- Penning.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Author note Christain Hamel deceased in August 2017.