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Ophthalmic and Genetic Features of Bardet Biedl Syndrome in a German CohortNasser, Fadi, Kohl, Susanne, Kurtenbach, Anne, Kempf, Melanie, Biskup, Saskia, Zuleger, Theresia, Haack, Tobias B., Weisschuh, Nicole, Stingl, Katarina, Zrenner, Eberhart 02 November 2023 (has links)
The aim of this study was to characterize the ophthalmic and genetic features of Bardet Biedl
(BBS) syndrome in a cohort of patients from a German specialized ophthalmic care center. Sixty-one
patients, aged 5–56 years, underwent a detailed ophthalmic examination including visual acuity and
color vision testing, electroretinography (ERG), visually evoked potential recording (VEP), fundus
examination, and spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Adaptive optics flood
illumination ophthalmoscopy was performed in five patients. All patients had received diagnostic
genetic testing and were selected upon the presence of apparent biallelic variants in known BBSassociated
genes. All patients had retinal dystrophy with morphologic changes of the retina. Visual
acuity decreased from ~0.2 (decimal) at age 5 to blindness 0 at 50 years. Visual field examination could
be performed in only half of the patients and showed a concentric constriction with remaining islands
of function in the periphery. ERG recordings were mostly extinguished whereas VEP recordings
were reduced in about half of the patients. The cohort of patients showed 51 different likely biallelic
mutations—of which 11 are novel—in 12 different BBS-associated genes. The most common associated
genes were BBS10 (32.8%) and BBS1 (24.6%), and by far the most commonly observed variants were
BBS10 c.271dup;p.C91Lfs*5 (21 alleles) and BBS1 c.1169T>G;p.M390R (18 alleles). The phenotype
associated with the different BBS-associated genes and genotypes in our cohort is heterogeneous,
with diverse features without genotype–phenotype correlation. The results confirm and expand our
knowledge of this rare disease.
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