| Disease ID | Source | Name | Description |
| 613310 | OMIM | Vitreoretinopathy, exudative 5 (EVR5) | A disorder of the retinal vasculature characterized by an abrupt cessation of growth of peripheral capillaries, leading to an avascular peripheral retina. This may lead to compensatory retinal neovascularization, which is thought to be induced by hypoxia from the initial avascular insult. New vessels are prone to leakage and rupture causing exudates and bleeding, followed by scarring, retinal detachment and blindness. Clinical features can be highly variable, even within the same family. Patients with mild forms of the disease are asymptomatic, and their only disease related abnormality is an arc of avascular retina in the extreme temporal periphery. The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry. TSPAN12 dominant and recessive mutations have been identified in patients with exudative vitreoretinopathy. Patients with mutations in both alleles of TSPAN12 have severe exudative vitreoretinopathy or retinal dysplasia. These mutations appear to result in a milder phenotype in heterozygous mutation carriers (PubMed:22427576). |