Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Disrupted alternative splicing for genes implicated in splicing and ciliogenesis causes PRPF31 retinitis pigmentosa

  • Adriana Buskin,
  • Lili Zhu,
  • Valeria Chichagova,
  • Basudha Basu,
  • Sina Mozaffari-Jovin,
  • David Dolan,
  • Alastair Droop,
  • Joseph Collin,
  • Revital Bronstein,
  • Sudeep Mehrotra,
  • Michael Farkas,
  • Gerrit Hilgen,
  • Kathryn White,
  • Kuan-Ting Pan,
  • Achim Treumann,
  • Dean Hallam,
  • Katarzyna Bialas,
  • Git Chung,
  • Carla Mellough,
  • Yuchun Ding,
  • Natalio Krasnogor,
  • Stefan Przyborski,
  • Simon Zwolinski,
  • Jumana Al-Aama,
  • Sameer Alharthi,
  • Yaobo Xu,
  • Gabrielle Wheway,
  • Katarzyna Szymanska,
  • Martin McKibbin,
  • Chris F. Inglehearn,
  • David J. Elliott,
  • Susan Lindsay,
  • Robin R. Ali,
  • David H. Steel,
  • Lyle Armstrong,
  • Evelyne Sernagor,
  • Henning Urlaub,
  • Eric Pierce,
  • Reinhard Lührmann,
  • Sushma-Nagaraja Grellscheid,
  • Colin A. Johnson,
  • Majlinda Lako

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06448-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Mutations in pre-mRNA processing factors cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. Here the authors provide insights into the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying non-syndromic retinal disease caused by heterozygous mutations in genes encoding ubiquitously expressed splicing factors.