Mutations in Splicing Factor Genes Are a Major Cause of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa in Belgian Families

• Caroline Van Cauwenbergh,

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1948-9091

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• Frauke Coppieters,

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Dimitri Roels,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Sarah De Jaegere,

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Helena Flipts,

  Affiliations Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

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• Julie De Zaeytijd,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Sophie Walraedt,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Charlotte Claes,

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Antwerp, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Erik Fransen,

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Antwerp, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Guy Van Camp,

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Antwerp, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Fanny Depasse,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hôpital Erasme-ULB, Brussels, Belgium

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• Ingele Casteels,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

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• Thomy de Ravel,

  Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

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• Bart P. Leroy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bart P. Leroy, Elfride De Baere

  Affiliations Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Division of Ophthalmology & Center for Cellular & Molecular Therapy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Elfride De Baere

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bart P. Leroy, Elfride De Baere

  * E-mail: Elfride.DeBaere@UGent.be

  Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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