Biallelic Mutations in GNB3 Cause a Unique Form of Autosomal-Recessive Congenital Stationary Night Blindness.

Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is a heterogeneous group of non-progressive inherited retinal disorders with characteristic electroretinogram (ERG) abnormalities. Riggs and Schubert-Bornschein are subtypes of CSNB and demonstrate distinct ERG features. Riggs CSNB demonstrates selective rod photoreceptor dysfunction and occurs due to mutations in genes encoding proteins involved in rod phototransduction cascade; night blindness is the only symptom and eye examination is otherwise normal.

Frequency and clinical pattern of vitelliform macular dystrophy caused by mutations of interphotoreceptor matrix IMPG1 and IMPG2 genes.

Purpose: To assess the frequency of and to characterize the clinical spectrum and optical coherence tomography findings of vitelliform macular dystrophy linked to IMPG1 and IMPG2, 2 new causal genes expressed in the interphotoreceptor matrix.

Design: Retrospective epidemiologic, clinical, electrophysiologic, and molecular genetic study.

Participants: The database of a national referral center specialized in genetic sensory diseases was screened for patients with a macular vitelliform dystrophy without identified mutation or small deletion or large rearrangement in BEST1 and PRPH2 genes.

Early-onset foveal involvement in retinitis punctata albescens with mutations in RLBP1.

Importance: Retinitis punctata albescens (RPA) is an autosomal recessive form of retinitis pigmentosa characterized by white dotlike deposits in the fundus, in most cases caused by mutations in RLBP1.

Objective: To study disease progression and visual function in RPA.

Design: We performed clinical and molecular investigations in patients with RPA at various ages, from November 5, 2003, through June 20, 2012, with no planned patient follow-up.