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Improved Diagnosis of Inherited Retinal Dystrophies by High-Fidelity PCR of ORF15 followed by Next-Generation Sequencing.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Nov 2016
Li Jianli, Tang Jia, Feng Yanming, Xu Mingchu, Chen Rui, Zou Xuan, Sui Ruifang, Chang Emmanuel Y, Lewis Richard A, Zhang Victor W, Wang Jing, Wong Lee-Jun C
Abstract excerpt
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of retinal dystrophy. The disease is characterized by the progressive degeneration of photoreceptors, ultimately leading to blindness. The exon ORF15 of RP GTPase regulator (RPGR) is a mutation hot spot for X-linked RP and one form of cone dystrophy. However, accurate molecular testing of ORF15 is challenging because of a large segment of highly repetitive...
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