Ă…land Islands eye disease

General Information (adopted from Orphanet):

Synonyms, Signs: AIED
forsius-eriksson type ocular albinism
Forsius-Eriksson syndrome
Number of Symptoms 14
OrphanetNr: 178333
OMIM Id: 300600
ICD-10: H35.5
UMLs:
MeSH:
MedDRA:
Snomed:

Prevalence, inheritance and age of onset:

Prevalence: > 5 families [Orphanet]
Inheritance: X-linked
14230113 [IBIS]
Age of onset: Neonatal
Infancy
14230113 [IBIS]

Disease classification (adopted from Orphanet):

Parent Diseases: Retinal dystrophy
 -Rare eye disease
 -Rare genetic disease

Symptom Information: Sort by abundance 

1
(HPO:0011522) Protanopia 2 / 7739
2
(HPO:0000662) Nyctalopia 92 / 7739
3
(HPO:0030532) Visual acuity test abnormality 4 / 7739
4
(HPO:0001487) Hypopigmented fundi 14230113 IBIS 4 / 7739
5
(HPO:0000483) Astigmatism 14230113 IBIS 67 / 7739
6
(HPO:0007750) Hypoplasia of the fovea 14230113 IBIS 11 / 7739
7
(HPO:0000639) Nystagmus 17525176 IBIS 555 / 7739
8
(HPO:0000545) Myopia 17525176 IBIS 286 / 7739
9
(HPO:0001141) Severe visual impairment 17525176 IBIS 11 / 7739
10
(HPO:0001022) Albinism 17525176 IBIS 43 / 7739
11
(HPO:0001939) Abnormality of metabolism/homeostasis 17525176 IBIS 328 / 7739
12
(OMIM) Fundus albinism 14230113 IBIS 1 / 7739
13
(OMIM) No macromelanosomes on EM 7398111 IBIS 1 / 7739
14
(OMIM) Protanomalous colorblindness 14230113 IBIS 1 / 7739

Associated genes:

CACNA1F;

ClinVar (via SNiPA)

Gene symbol Variation Clinical significance Reference

Additional Information:

Description: (OMIM) Aland Island eye disease (AIED) is an X-linked recessive retinal disease characterized by fundus hypopigmentation, decreased visual acuity, nystagmus, astigmatism, protan color vision defect (303900), progressive myopia, and defective dark adaptation. Although AIED has been referred to as ...
Clinical Description OMIM Forsius and Eriksson (1964) reported X-linked tapetoretinal degeneration in a family described in a family from the Aland Islands in the Sea of Bothnia. Males in 6 generations were affected with hypopigmentation of the fundus, foveal hypoplasia, marked ...
Molecular genetics OMIM Wutz et al. (2002) identified mutations in the CACNA1F gene (300110), which is also mutated in the incomplete form of X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB2A), in a Finnish family and a sporadic Swiss case with an AIED-like ...