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Retinitis pigmentosa-87 with choroidal involvement (RP87) is characterized by a slowly progressive visual disturbance, including night blindness and reduced central and peripheral vision, accompanied by extensive choroid/retinal atrophy that mimics certain aspects of choroideremia. Disease severity and age of onset are variable, and some carriers are unaffected (Hull et al., 2016; Li et al., 2019). For a discussion of genetic heterogeneity of RP, see 268000. [from OMIM]

Any retinitis pigmentosa in which the cause of the disease is a mutation in the RPE65 gene. [from MONDO]

RPE65-related Leber congenital amaurosis / early-onset severe retinal dystrophy (RPE65-LCA/EOSRD) is a severe inherited retinal degeneration (IRD) with a typical presentation between birth and age five years. While central vision varies, the hallmark of this disorder is the presence of severe visual impairment with a deceptively preserved retinal structure. Vision is relatively stable in the first decade of life, but begins to decline in adolescence. Most affected individuals are legally blind (visual acuity 20/200 and/or visual fields extending <20 degrees from fixation) by age 20 years. After age 20 years, visual acuity declines further and by the fourth decade all affected individuals are legally blind and many have complete loss of vision (i.e., no light perception). Milder disease phenotypes have been described in individuals with hypomorphic alleles. [from GeneReviews]