Table 2 of Tada, Mol Vis 2006; 12:441-444.


Table 2. Allele frequencies of DNA sequence changes in the MERTK gene

Data are from the mutation screening of 96 unrelated patients with arRP and 100 normal controls. The numbers of patients with wild type (wt), heterozygous sequence changes (het), and homozygous sequence changes (hom) are given.

                                                     ARRP patients            Normal control
                                                -----------------------   -----------------------
                                                                Minor                     Minor
                                    Predicted                  allele                    allele
Location        DNA changes          effect     wt:het:homo   frequency   wt:het:homo   frequency
--------   ----------------------   ---------   -----------   ---------   -----------   ---------
Exon1      c.172T->C                Leu12Pro     95: 0: 1       0.010      100: 0: 0      0
Intron1    IVS1-18G->A              No effect    92: 1: 0       0.005       98: 2: 0      0.010
Exon2      c.480T->G                Cys115Gly    94: 1: 0       0.005      100: 0: 0      0
Exon2      c.490A->G                Asn118Ser     0:14:81       0.926        1:14:85      0.924
Intron2    IVS2+68insTTTATTTATTTA   No effect    93: 0: 2       0.021       98: 0: 2      0.020
Intron3    IVS3+10C->T              No effect    64:17: 1       0.131       82:17: 1      0.104
Exon4      c.893A->G                Pro252Pro    87: 8: 0       0.043       94: 6: 0      0.030
Intron4    IVS4+13T->C              No effect    63:31: 1       0.210       62:36: 2      0.250
Intron4    IVS4+51G->T              No effect    65:28: 2       0.202       62:36: 2      0.250
Exon9      c.1534G->A               Arg466Lys    48:25: 2       0.239       60:38: 2      0.265
Exon10     c.1631C->T               Asn498Asn    69:20: 1       0.139       79:21: 0      0.117
Exon10     c.1689A->G               Ile518Val    54:34: 2       0.267       61:38: 1      0.250
Exon14     c.2018T->G               Ser627Ser    54:35: 2       0.272       62:37: 1      0.242
Intron14   IVS14-42A->G             No effect    60:10: 1       0.092       80:20: 0      0.111
Intron15   IVS15-11C->A             No effect    67: 0: 1       0.014       96: 3: 1      0.025
Intron18   IVS18-143T->C            No effect    63:16: 2       0.140       79:20: 1      0.123
Exon19     c.2863G->A               Arg909His    85: 1: 0       0.005      100: 0: 0      0

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