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Stickler syndrome (hereditary arthro-ophthalmopathy) is the commonest inherited cause of retinal detachment and one of the commonest autosomal dominant connective tissue dysplasias. There is clinical and locus heterogeneity with about two thirds of families linked to the gene encoding type II procollagen ( COL2A1 ). Families with Sticklers syndrome type 1 have a characteristic congenital vitreous anomaly and are linked without recombination to markers at the  COL2A1  locus. In contrast families with the type 2 variety have a different vitreo-retinal phenotype and are not linked to the  COL2A1  gene. Type XI collagen is a quantitatively minor fibrillar collagen related to type V collagen and associated with the more abundant type II collagen fibrils. A mutation in  COL11A2 , the gene for α2 (XI) procollagen, has recently been found in a family described as having Stickler syndrome, although there was no ocular involvement. Here we show for the first time that a family with the full Type 2 Stickler syndrome including vitreous and retinal abnormalities is linked to the  COL11A1  gene and characterise the mutation as a Glycine to Valine substitution at position 97 of the triple helical domain caused by a single base G→T mutation. These results are the first to provide confirmation that type XI collagen is an important structural component of human vitreous. They also support previous work suggesting that mutations in the genes encoding collagen XI can give rise to some manifestations of Stickler syndrome, but of these, only mutations in  COL11A1  will give the full syndrome including the vi-treo-retinal features.

A Family with Stickler Syndrome Type 2 Has a Mutation in the COL11A1 Gene Resulting in the Substitution of Glycine 97 by Valine in a1(XI) Collagen