“Retinitis Pigmentosa”, Victor McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man, 1966.

Here I present: “Retinitis Pigmentosa”, Victor McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man’, 1966.

INTRODUCTION.

 Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision. RP is an inherited retina dystrophy of the eyes.  Retinitis Pigmentosa-68 (RP68) is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the SLC7A14 gene on chromosome at 3q26.2 and is 126,528 base pairs in length of DNA.

The cytogenetic location: 3q26.2     genomic coordinates 3:170,459,548-170,586,075 ; and, the screenshot of the 126,528 bp (base pairs) is shown BELOW.