Importance: The association of race and detection of pathogenic variants using wide-panel genetic testing for inherited retinal diseases (IRD), to our knowledge, has not been studied previously.
Objective: To investigate the genetic detection rates of wide-panel testing in Black and non-Hispanic White patients with IRDs.
Design, Setting, Participants: This 2-group comparison used retrospective patient data that were collected at the University of Michigan (UM) and Blueprint Genetics (BG).