RDH5

Chr 12ADAR

retinol dehydrogenase 5

Also known as: 9cRDH, HSD17B9, RDH1, SDR9C5

This gene encodes an enzyme belonging to the short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) family. This retinol dehydrogenase functions to catalyze the final step in the biosynthesis of 11-cis retinaldehyde, which is the universal chromophore of visual pigments. Mutations in this gene cause autosomal recessive fundus albipunctatus, a rare form of night blindness that is characterized by a delay in the regeneration of cone and rod photopigments. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Read-through transcription also exists between this gene and the neighboring upstream BLOC1S1 (biogenesis of lysosomal organelles complex-1, subunit 1) gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]

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Primary Disease Associations & Inheritance

Fundus albipunctatusMIM #136880
ADAR

Clinical highlights

Gene-disease validity (ClinGen)
RDH5-related retinopathy · ARDefinitivesufficient evidence for diagnostic panels
Interpreting a novel variant
Loss of function is the curated mechanism (Gene2Phenotype), though the gene is not strongly LoF-constrained in the population — weigh truncating variants against that tolerance.Curated gene-level mechanism — a prior for triage, not a per-variant call.
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Active trials
16
Pubs (1 yr)
P/LP submissions
P/LP missense
LOEUF
LOF
Mechanism· G2P
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Population Genetics & Constraint

Constraint data not available from gnomAD.

ClinVar Variant Classifications

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Protein Context — Lollipop Plot

RDH5 · protein map & ClinVar variants

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Clinical Trials

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