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Genotype-phenotype studies and gene therapy for inherited blindness
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Generation and characterization of three human induced pluripotent stem cell lines (UGENTi005, UGENTi006 and UGENTi007) from patients with autosomal dominant adult-onset maculopathy due to RPE65 variant c.1555G>A, p.(E519K)
Eline Van Vooren
Filip Van Den Broeck
Esperanza Daal
Mehrnaz Ghazvini
Julie De Zaeytijd
Bart Leroy
Miriam Bauwens
Elfride De Baere
A1
Journal Article
in
STEM CELL RESEARCH
2025
RPE65 variant p.(E519K) causes a novel dominant adult-onset maculopathy in 83 affected individuals
Eline Van Vooren
Filip Van Den Broeck
Quinten Mahieu
Eline Geens
Mattias Van Heetvelde
Marieke De Bruyne
Stijn Van de Sompele
Sheetal Uppal
Eugenia Poliakov
Claire-Marie Dhaenens
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
2025
Generation of two iPSC lines (UGENTi003 and UGENTi004) from patients with intermediate rod-cone dystrophy carrying the c.[-123C>T;701G>A]; [806_810del] variants in the RDH12 gene
Manon Bouckaert
Filip Van Den Broeck
M. Ghazvini
Alfredo Dueñas Rey
Hanne Lenaerts
Annelies Dheedene
Kathleen Claes
Elfride De Baere
Bart Leroy
Julie De Zaeytijd
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
STEM CELL RESEARCH
2025
Ocular graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients : a longitudinal cohort study evaluating ocular surface parameters before and after transplantation
Dimitri Roels
Anke Delie
Dominiek Mazure
Katrien De Grove
Ineke van Gremberghe
Joke Deprez
Isabelle Peene
Dirk Elewaut
Bart Leroy
Ilse Claerhout
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
CORNEA
2025
Characterising the refractive error in paediatric patients with congenital stationary night blindness : a multicentre study
Austin D. Igelman
Elizabeth White
Alaa Tayyib
Lesley Everett
Ajoy Vincent
Elise Heon
Christina Zeitz
Michel Michaelides
Omar A. Mahroo
Mohamed Katta
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
2025
Bi-allelic variants in three genes encoding distinct subunits of the vesicular AP-5 complex cause hereditary macular dystrophy
Karolina Kaminska
Francesca Cancellieri
Mathieu Quinodoz
Abigail R. Moye
Miriam Bauwens
Siying Lin
Lucas Janeschitz-Kriegl
Tamar Hayman
Pilar Barberán-Martínez
Regina Schlaeger
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
2025
A novel recurrent ARL3 variant c.209G>A p.(Gly70Glu) causes variable non-syndromic dominant retinal dystrophy with defective lipidated protein transport in human retinal stem cell models
Julio C Corral-Serrano
Veronika Vaclavik
Stijn Van de Sompele
Karolina Kaminska
Katarina Jovanovic
Pascal Escher
Filip Van Den Broeck
Francesca Cancellieri
Vasileios Toulis
Bart Leroy
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
2025
Inherited retinal disease gene panel in posterior or panuveitis with dystrophic features
Stéphane Abramowicz
Audrey Meunier
Dafina Draganova
Laure Caspers
Marieke De Bruyne
Stijn Van de Sompele
Elfride De Baere
Bart Leroy
Laurence Postelmans
François Willermain
A1
Journal Article
in
RETINA-THE JOURNAL OF RETINAL AND VITREOUS DISEASES
2025
Gonadal mosaicism as a rare inheritance pattern in recessive genodermatoses : report of two cases with pseudoxanthoma elasticum and literature review
Lisa Dangreau
Mohammad Jakir Hosen
Julie De Zaeytijd
Bart Leroy
Paul Coucke
Olivier Vanakker
A1
Journal Article
in
CURRENT ISSUES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2024
Diagnostic yield of an inherited retinal disease gene panel in retinopathy of unknown origin
Stéphane Abramowicz
Audrey Meunier
Laurence Postelmans
Laure Caspers
Francis Corazza
Marieke De Bruyne
Stijn Van de Sompele
Elfride De Baere
Bart Leroy
François Willermain
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
RETINA-THE JOURNAL OF RETINAL AND VITREOUS DISEASES
2024
Optic nerve involvement in CACNA1F-related disease : observations from a multicentric case series
Elisa Marziali
Filip Van Den Broeck
Sara Bargiacchi
Pina Fortunato
Roberto Caputo
Andrea Sodi
Julie De Zaeytijd
Vittoria Murro
Dario Pasquale Mucciolo
Dario Giorgio
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
OPHTHALMIC GENETICS
2023
Paediatric cataract surgery with 27G vitrectomy instrumentation : the Ghent University Hospital experience
Hwei Wuen Chan
Filip Van Den Broeck
Axelle Cools
SOPHIE WALRAEDT
Inge Joniau
Hannah Verdin
Irina Balikova
Stefaan Van Nuffel
Patricia Delbeke
Elfride De Baere
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
2023
Randomized trial of bilateral gene therapy injection for m.11778G>A MT-ND4 Leber optic neuropathy
Nancy J. Newman
Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
Prem S. Subramanian
Mark L. Moster
An-Guor Wang
Sean P. Donahue
Bart Leroy
Valerio Carelli
Valerie Biousse
Catherine Vignal-Clermont
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
BRAIN
2023
Cost-effective sequence analysis of 113 genes in 1,192 probands with retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital amaurosis
Daan M. Panneman
Rebekkah J. Hitti-Malin
Lara K. Holtes
Suzanne E. de Bruijn
Janine Reurink
Erica G. M. Boonen
Muhammad Imran Khan
Manir Ali
Sten Andréasson
Elfride De Baere
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
2023
Multi-omics approach dissects cis-regulatory mechanisms underlying North Carolina macular dystrophy, a retinal enhanceropathy
Stijn Van de Sompele
Kent W. Small
Münevver Burcu Cicekdal
Victor Lopez Soriano
Eva D'haene
Fadi S. Shaya
Steven Agemy
Thijs Van der Snickt
Alfredo Dueñas Rey
Toon Rosseel
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
2022
Intravitreal antisense oligonucleotide sepofarsen in Leber congenital amaurosis type 10 : a phase 1b/2 trial
Stephen R. Russell
Arlene V. Drack
Artur V. Cideciyan
Samuel G. Jacobson
Bart Leroy
Caroline Van Cauwenbergh
Allen C. Ho
Alina V. Dumitrescu
Ian C. Han
Mitchell Martin
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE MEDICINE
2022
The natural history of leber congenital amaurosis and cone–rod dystrophy associated with variants in the GUCY2D gene
Leo C. Hahn
Michalis Georgiou
Hind Almushattat
Mary J. van Schooneveld
Emanuel R. de Carvalho
Nieneke L. Wesseling
Jacoline B. ten Brink
Ralph J. Florijn
Birgit I. Lissenberg-Witte
Ine Strubbe
et al.
A2
Journal Article
in
OPHTHALMOLOGY RETINA
2022
Serum calcification propensity T50 associates with disease severity in patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Lukas Nollet
Matthias Van Gils
Suzanne Fischer
Laurence Campens
Swapna Karthik
Andreas Pasch
Julie De Zaeytijd
Bart Leroy
Daniel Devos
Tine De Backer
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
2022
X-linked Retinoschisis : novel clinical observations and genetic spectrum in 340 patients
Leo C. Hahn
Mary J. van Schooneveld
Nieneke L. Wesseling
Ralph J. Florijn
Jacoline B. ten Brink
Birgit I. Lissenberg-Witte
Ine Strubbe
Magda A. Meester-Smoor
Alberta A. Thiadens
Roselie M. Diederen
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
OPHTHALMOLOGY
2022
Longitudinal phenotypic study of late-onset retinal degeneration due to a founder variant c.562C > A p.(Pro188Thr) in the C1QTNF5 gene
Julie De Zaeytijd
Frauke Coppieters
Marieke De Bruyne
Jasper Van Royen
Dimitri Roels
Rani Six
Caroline Van Cauwenbergh
Elfride De Baere
Bart Leroy
A1
Journal Article
in
OPHTHALMIC GENETICS
2021
The corneoscleral shape in Marfan syndrome
Eva Vanhonsebrouck
Alejandra Consejo
Paul Coucke
Bart Leroy
Elke O. Kreps
A1
Journal Article
in
ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA
2021
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