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  • The study aims to investigate the molecular effects of the PHYH:c.678+5G>T variant, which has conflicting reports in the ClinVar database and appears with a low frequency in the South Asian population.
  • Researchers recruited patients with retinitis pigmentosa from Moorfields Eye Hospital and Buenos Aires, who had biallelic PHYH variants, and analyzed their blood samples for RNA sequencing.
  • Results showed that the variant significantly affects splicing in the PHYH gene, indicating a pathogenic classification, suggesting that patients with this genotype should be tested for phytanic acid levels due to varying presentations of the disease.

Article Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the molecular effect of the variant PHYH:c.678+5G>T. This variant has conflicting interpretations in the ClinVar database and a maximum allele frequency of 0.0045 in the South Asian population in gnomAD.

Methods: We recruited patients from Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, UK) and Buenos Aires, Argentina, who were diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and found to have biallelic variants in PHYH, with at least one being c.678+5G>T. Total RNA was purified from PaxGene RNA-stabilized whole-blood samples, followed by reverse transcription to cDNA, PCR amplification of the canonical PHYH transcript, Oxford Nanopore Technologies library preparation, and single-molecule amplicon sequencing.

Results: Four patients provided a blood sample. One patient had isolated retinitis pigmentosa and three had mild extraocular findings. Blood phytanic acid levels were normal in two patients, mildly elevated in one, and markedly high in the fourth. Retinal evaluation showed an intact ellipsoid zone as well as preserved autofluorescence in the macular region in three of the four patients. In all patients, we observed in-frame skipping of exons 5 and 6 in 31.1% to 88.4% of the amplicons and a smaller proportion (0% to 11.3% of amplicons) skipping exon 6 only.

Conclusions: We demonstrate a significant effect of PHYH:c.678+5G>T on splicing of the canonical transcript. The in-frame nature of this may be in keeping with a mild presentation and higher prevalence in the general population. These data support the classification of the variant as pathogenic, and patients harboring a biallelic genotype should undergo phytanic acid testing.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10910431PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.65.2.38DOI Listing

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