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Ophthalmological and molecular genetic studies were performed in a consanguineous family with individuals showing either retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or cone-rod dystrophy (CRD). Assuming pseudodominant (recessive) inheritance of allelic defects, linkage analysis positioned the causal gene at 1p21–p13 (lod score 4.22), a genomic segment known to harbor the  ABCR  gene involved in Stargardt's disease (STGD) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We completed the exon-intron structure of the  ABCR  gene and detected a severe homozygous 5′ splice site mutation, IVS30+1G→T, in the four RP patients. The five CRD patients in this family are compound heterozygotes for the IVS30+1G→T mutation and a 5′ splice site mutation in intron 40 (IVS40+5G→A). Both splice site mutations were found heterozygously in two unrelated STGD patients, but not in 100 control individuals. In these patients the second mutation was either a missense mutation or unknown. Since thus far no STGD patients have been reported to carry two  ABCR  null alleles and taking into account that the RP phenotype is more severe than the STGD phenotype, we hypothesize that the intron 30 splice site mutation represents a true null allele. Since the intron 30 mutation is found heterozygously in the CRD patients, the IVS40+5G→A mutation probably renders the exon 40 5′ splice site partially functional. These results show that mutations in the  ABCR  gene not only result in STGD and AMD, but can also cause autosomal recessive RP and CRD. Since the heterozygote frequency for  ABCR  mutations is estimated at 0.02, mutations in  ABCR  might be an important cause of autosomal recessive and sporadic forms of RP and CRD.

Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa and Cone-rod Dystrophy Caused by Splice Site Mutations in the Stargardt's Disease Gene ABCR