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Functional implications of the spectrum of mutations found in 234 cases with X-linked juvenile retinoschisis. The Retinoschisis Consortium.

X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) is the most common cause of juvenile macular degeneration in males, resulting in vision loss early in life. The gene involved in XLRS was identified recently. It encodes a protein with a disoidin domain, suggested to be involved in cell-cell interactions. We have screened the gene for mutations in 234 familial and sporadic retinoschisis cases and identified 82 different mutations in 214 (91%). Thirty one mutations were found more than once, i.e. 2-10 times, with the exception of the 214G-->A mutation which was found in 34 apparently unrelated cases. The origin of the patients, the linkage data and the site of the mutations (mainly CG dinucleotides) indicate that most recurrent mutations had independent origins and thus suggest the existence of a significant new mutation rate in XLRS1. The mutations identified cover the entire spectrum, from small intra-genic deletions (7%), to nonsense (6%), missense (75%), small frameshifting insertions/deletions (6%) and splice site mutations (6%). Since, regardless of the mutation type, no females with a typical RS phenotype were identified, RS seems to be caused by loss-of-function mutations only. Mutations occurred non-randomly, with hotspots at several CG dinucleotides and a C6stretch. Exons 1-3 contained few, mainly translation-truncating mutations, arguing against an important functional role for this segment of the protein. Exons 4-6, encoding the discoidin domain, contained most, mainly missense mutations. An alignment of 32 discoidin domain proteins was constructed to reveal the consensus sequence and to deduce the functional importance of the missense mutations identified. The mutation analysis revealed a high preponderance of mutations involving or creating cysteine residues, pointing to sites important for the tertiary folding and/or protein function, and highlights several amino acids which may be involved in XLRS1-specific protein-protein interactions. Despite the enormous mutation heterogeneity, patients have relatively uniform clinical manifestations although with great intra-familial variation in age at onset and progression.

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