Mutations in KCNJ13 cause autosomal-dominant snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration

American Journal of Human Genetics
J Fielding HejtmancikAlbert O Edwards

Abstract

Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration (SVD, MIM 193230) is a developmental and progressive hereditary eye disorder that affects multiple tissues within the eye. Diagnostic features of SVD include fibrillar degeneration of the vitreous humor, early-onset cataract, minute crystalline deposits in the neurosensory retina, and retinal detachment. A genome-wide scan previously localized the genetic locus for SVD to a 20 Mb region flanked by D2S2158 and D2S2202. This region contains 59 genes, of which 20 were sequenced, disclosing a heterozygous mutation (484C > T, R162W) in KCNJ13, member 13 of subfamily J of the potassium inwardly rectifying channel family in all affected individuals. The mutation in KCNJ13, the gene encoding Kir7.1, was not present in unaffected family members and 210 control individuals. Kir7.1 localized to human retina and retinal pigment epithelium and was especially prevalent in the internal limiting membrane adjacent to the vitreous body. Molecular modeling of this mutation predicted disruption of the structure of the potassium channel in the closed state located immediately adjacent to the cell-membrane inner boundary. Functionally, unlike wild-type Kir7.1 whose overexpression in CHO-K1 cells line produces hig...Continue Reading

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