Table 1

Summary of the corneal dystrophies: modes of inheritance, gene loci, genes and the categories of the International Committee for the Classification of Corneal Dystrophies (IC3D) categories


Mode of inheritance
Gene locus
Gene
IC3D Category*

SUPERFICIAL CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES




Meesmann dystrophy
AD
12q13
KRT3
1
Meesmann dystrophy
AD
17q12
KRT12
1
Stocker-Holt dystrophy
AD
17q12
KRT12
1
Granular corneal dystrophy type III




(Reis-Bücklers dystrophy)
AD
5q31
TGFBI
1
Thiel-Behnke dystrophy
AD
5q31
TGFBI
1
Thiel-Behnke dystrophy
AD
10q23–q24
Unknown
2
Gelatinous droplike corneal dystrophy (familial subepithelial corneal amyloidosis)
AR
1p32
TACSTD2 (M1S1)
1
Subepithelial mucinous corneal dystrophy
AD
Unknown
Unknown
4
Lisch epithelial dystrophy
XR
Xp22.3
Unknown
2
Epithelial recurrent erosion dystrophy
AD
Unknown
Unknown
3
CORNEAL STROMAL DYSTROPHIES




Macular corneal dystrophy
AR
16q22
CHST6
1
Granular corneal dystrophy type I
AD
5q31
TGFBI
1
Granular corneal dystrophy type II




(Avellino dystrophy,




combined lattice-granular dystrophy)
AD
5q31
TGFBI
1
Lattice corneal dystrophy type I and variants
AD
5q31
TGFBI
1
Lattice corneal dystrophy type II
AD
9q34
GSN
1
Fleck dystrophy
AD
2q35
PIP5K3
1
Schnyder corneal dystrophy
AD
1p34.1–p36
UBIAD1
1
Posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy
AD
Unknown
Unknown
3
Congenital stromal dystrophy
AD
12q13.2
DCN
1
POSTERIOR DYSTROPHIES




Fuchs dystrophy (early onset)
AD
1p34.3
COL8A
1
Fuchs dystrophy (late onset)
AD
13pTel-13q12.13
Unknown
2
Fuchs dystrophy (late onset)
AD
18q21.2–q21.32
Unknown
2
Fuchs dystrophy (late onset)
?
20p13-p12
SLC4A11
1
Fuchs dystrophy (late onset)
?
10p11.2
TCF8
1
Posterior polymorphous dystrophy type 1
AD
20p11.2
Unknown
2
Posterior polymorphous dystrophy type 2
AD
1p34.3-p32.3
COL8A2#
1
Posterior polymorphous dystrophy type 3
AD
10p11.2
TCF8
1
Congenital endothelial dystrophy type 1
AD
20p11.2-q11.2
Unknown
2
Congenital endothelial dystrophy type 2





AR
20p13-p12
SLC4A11
1
X-linked endothelial corneal dystrophy
XR
Unknown
Unknown
2

* Category 1: A well-defined corneal dystrophy in which the gene has been mapped and identified and specific mutations are known

Category 2: A well-defined corneal dystrophy that has been mapped to 1 or more specific chromosomal loci, but the gene(s) remains to be identified

Category 3: A well-defined clinical corneal dystrophy in which the disorder has not yet been mapped to a chromosomal locus.

Category 4: A suspected new, or previously documented corneal dystrophy, although the evidence for it, being a distinct entity, is not yet convincing.

Klintworth Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2009 4:7   doi:10.1186/1750-1172-4-7