Abstract
X-linked juvenile retinoschisis (RS) is a progressive vitreoretinal degeneration localised in Xp22.1-p22.2. A human homologue of the retinal degeneration gene C (rdgC), a gene that in Drosophila melanogaster prevents light-induced retinal degeneration, was localised in the RS obligate gene region. We have tested the gene, designated PPEF in humans, as a candidate gene in RS patients using RT-PCR and the protein truncation test on RNA and SSCP on DNA. No mutations were identified, making it highly unlikely that PPEF is the gene implicated in RS. The data presented facilitate mutation analysis of the PPEF gene in other diseases which have been or will be localised to this region.
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Received: 20 May 1997 / Accepted: 30 July 1997
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van de Vosse, E., Franco, B., van der Bent, P. et al. Exclusion of PPEF as the gene causing X-linked juvenile retinoschisis. Hum Genet 101, 235–237 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050622
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050622