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Table 2 Non-syndromic and syndromic retinal dystrophies and inheritance pattern

From: Retinitis pigmentosa and allied conditions today: a paradigm of translational research

Retinal dystrophy

Inheritance

Non-syndromic

 

   Retinitis pigmentosa

ad, ar, xl, digenic

   Cone or cone-rod dystrophy

ad, ar, xl

   Leber congenital amaurosis

Mainly ar, rarely ad

   Stargardt disease

Mainly ar, rarely ad

   Fundus flavimaculatus

ar

   Congenital stationary night blindness

ad, ar, xl

   North Carolina macular dystrophy

ad

   Sorsby's macular dystrophy

ad

   Pattern macular dystrophy

ad

   Vitelliform macular dystrophy (Best's disease)

ad (incomplete penetrance)

   Choroideremia

xl

   X-linked retinoschisis

xl

   Gyrate atrophy

ar

Syndromic

 

   Usher syndrome

ar

   Bardet-Biedl syndrome

ar, oligogenic

   Senior-Locken syndrome

ar

   Alport syndrome

xl

   Älmstron syndrome

ar

   Joubert Syndrome

ar

   Nephronophthisis

ar, oligogenic

   Cockayne syndrome

ar

   Refsum disease

ar

   Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia type 7

ad

   Norrie disease

xl

  1. ad: autosomal dominant; ar: autosomal recessive; xl: X-linked.