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ArticleOrphanet journal of rare diseases2022

Expanding the phenotype of TTLL5-associated retinal dystrophy: a case series.

Jin Kyun Oh, José G Vargas Del Valle, Jose Ronaldo Lima de Carvalho, Young Joo Sun, Sarah R Levi, Joseph Ryu, Jing Yang, Takayuki Nagasaki, Andres Emanuelli, Nailyn Rasool and 6 more

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Jin Kyun OhDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
José G Vargas Del ValleSchool of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA.
Jose Ronaldo Lima de CarvalhoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Young Joo SunOmics Laboratory, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Sarah R LeviDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Joseph RyuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jing YangOmics Laboratory, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Takayuki NagasakiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Andres EmanuelliDepartment of Ophthalmology, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA.
Nailyn RasoolDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Rando AllikmetsDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Janet R SparrowDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Natalio J IzquierdoDepartment of Surgery, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA.
Jacque L DuncanDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Vinit B MahajanOmics Laboratory, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Stephen H TsangDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. sht2@cumc.columbia.edu.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · USUniversity of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus · PRStanford University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USHospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco · BRSmith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute · USState University of New York · US

Funding

Tumor Biology and Microenvironment ProgramP30CA013696 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Anil K Rustgi · 1985 to 2026
$115.3M
Rapid-Prototyping and Design CoreP30EY002162 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LAMBA, DEEPAK ASHOK · 1985 to 2024
$16.8M
Instrumentation, Fabrication, and Design CoreP30EY019007 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Xin Zhang · 2010 to 2026
$12.9M
Translational Gene Therapy for CNGB1 Retinitis PigmentosaR24EY027285 · NEI · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HAUSWIRTH, WILLIAM W, MICHALAKIS, STYLIANOS · 2018 to 2022
$8.6M
Stanford Vision Research CoreP30EY026877 · NEI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Jeffrey L Goldberg · 2017 to 2026
$8.0M
Toward mechanism- and gene-based therapies for retinal degenerationR01EY018213 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Stephen H Tsang · 2008 to 2026
$6.6M
Gene Silencing and Gene Editing in PhototransductionR01EY024698 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Stephen H Tsang · 2015 to 2026
$4.7M
Precision medicine for ABCA4 disease: modifier allelesR01EY028203 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ALLIKMETS, RANDO L · 2018 to 2021
$2.3M
Integrated clinical, genetic and functional analysis of the ABCA4 locusR01EY029315 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ALLIKMETS, RANDO L · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Mechanistic Studies on Regenerative Medicine Approaches to Childhood BlindnessR01EY026682 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BASSUK, ALEXANDER G, MAHAJAN, VINIT B · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
Precision genome surgery in autologous stem cell transplantU01EY030580 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SPARROW, JANET RUTHE, TSANG, STEPHEN H · 2019 to 2020
$810k
Evaluating GWAS AMD Candidate Loci by Gene Editing in Human iPS CellsR21AG050437 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BASSUK, ALEXANDER G, MAHAJAN, VINIT B · 2015 to 2016
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInherited retinal dystrophies describe a heterogeneous group of retinal diseases that lead to the irreversible degeneration of rod and cone photoreceptors and eventual blindness. Recessive loss-of-function mutations in Tubulin Tyrosine Ligase Like 5 (TTLL5) represent a recently described cause of inherited cone-rod and cone dystrophy. This study describes the unusual phenotypes of three patients with autosomal recessive mutations in TTLL5. Examination of these patients included funduscopic evaluation, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, short-wavelength autofluorescence, and full-field electroretinography (ffERG). Genetic diagnoses were confirmed using whole exome capture. Protein modeling of the identified variants was performed to explore potential genotype-phenotype correlations.

resultsGenetic testing revealed five novel variants in TTLL5 in three unrelated patients with retinal dystrophy. Clinical imaging demonstrated features of sectoral cone-rod dystrophy and cone dystrophy, with phenotypic variability seen across all three patients. One patient also developed high-frequency hearing loss during a similar time period as the onset of retinal disease, potentially suggestive of a syndromic disorder. Retinal structure findings were corroborated with functional measures including ffERG findings that supported these diagnoses. Modeling of the five variants suggest that they cause different effects on protein function, providing a potential reason for genotype-phenotype correlation in these patients.

conclusionsThe authors report retinal phenotypic findings in three unrelated patients with novel mutations causing autosomal recessive TTLL5-mediated retinal dystrophy. These findings broaden the understanding of the phenotypes associated with TTLL5-mediated retinal disease and suggest that mutations in TTLL5 should be considered as a potential cause of sectoral retinal dystrophy in addition to cone-rod and cone dystrophies.

Indexed as

Retinal DystrophiesCarrier ProteinsElectroretinographyGenetic Association StudiesHumansMutationPhenotypeCarrier ProteinsTTLL5 protein, humanAutosomal recessiveCone dystrophyCone–rod dystrophyInherited retinal dystrophyRetinitis pigmentosaTTLL5

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PMID35365235
PMCPMC8973795
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