Bart P. Leroy, MD, PhD

Medical School

MD - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Residency

Ophthalmology - Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Clinical Genetics - Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Fellowship

Visual Electrophysiology and Medical Retina - Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Inherited Retinal Dystrophies & Medical Retina - Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
Research fellowship in Molecular Genetics - University College London, London, UK
Visual Electrophysiology -Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

Graduate Degree

PhD in Medical Sciences - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Papers

2015

Van Schil K, Klevering BJ, Leroy BP, Pott JW, Bandah-Rozenfeld D, Zonneveld-Vrieling MN, Sharon D, den Hollander AI, Cremers FP, De Baere E, Collin RW, van den Born LI. A Nonsense Mutation in FAM161A Is a Recurrent Founder Allele in Dutch and Belgian Individuals With Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Nov 1;56(12):7418-7426. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-17920. PMID 26574802.

Vandenbroucke T, Buyl R, De Zaeytijd J, Bauwens M, Uvijls A, De Baere E, Leroy BP. Colour Vision in Stargardt Disease. Ophthalmic Res. 2015;54(4):181-94. doi: 10.1159/000438906. Epub 2015 Oct 23. PMID: 26492201.

Coppieters F, Todeschini AL, Fujimaki T, Baert A, De Bruyne M, Van Cauwenbergh C, Verdin H, Bauwens M, Ongenaert M, Kondo M, Meire F, Murakami A, Veitia RA, Leroy BP, De Baere E. Hidden Genetic Variation in LCA9-Associated Congenital Blindness Explained by 5'UTR Mutations and Copy-Number Variations of NMNAT1. Hum Mutat. 2015 Dec;36(12):1188-96. doi: 10.1002/humu.22899. Epub 2015 Oct 1. PMID: 26316326.

El-Asrag ME, Sergouniotis PI, McKibbin M, Plagnol V, Sheridan E, Waseem N, Abdelhamed Z, McKeefry D, Van Schil K, Poulter JA; UK Inherited Retinal Disease Consortium, Johnson CA, Carr IM, Leroy BP, De Baere E, Inglehearn CF, Webster AR, Toomes C, Ali M. Biallelic mutations in the autophagy regulator DRAM2 cause retinal dystrophy with early macular involvement. Am J Hum Genet. 2015 Jun 4;96(6):948-54. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.04.006. Epub 2015 May 14. PMID: 25983245.

Bral NO, Marinkovic M, Leroy BP, Hoornaert K, van Lint M, Ten Tusscher MP. Do not turn a blind eye to alkyl nitrite (poppers)! Acta Ophthalmol. 2015 May 14. doi: 10.1111/aos.12753. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 25975842.

Lee H, Purohit R, Sheth V, McLean RJ, Kohl S, Leroy BP, Sundaram V, Michaelides M, Proudlock FA, Gottlob I. Retinal Development in Infants and Young Children with Achromatopsia. Ophthalmology. 2015 Oct;122(10):2145-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.03.033. Epub 2015 May 9. No abstract available. PMID: 25972256.

AlMoallem B, Bauwens M, Walraedt S, Delbeke P, De Zaeytijd J, Kestelyn P, Meire F, Janssens S, van Cauwenbergh C, Verdin H, Hooghe S, Kumar Thakur P, Coppieters F, De Leeneer K, Devriendt K, Leroy BP, De Baere E. Novel FRMD7 Mutations and Genomic Rearrangement Expand the Molecular Pathogenesis of X-Linked Idiopathic Infantile Nystagmus. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Feb 12;56(3):1701-10. doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-15938. PMID: 25678693.

Thompson DA, Ali RR, Banin E, Branham KE, Flannery JG, Gamm DM, Hauswirth WW, Heckenlively JR, Iannaccone A, Jayasundera KT, Khan NW, Molday RS, Pennesi ME, Reh TA, Weleber RG, Zacks DN; Monaciano Consortium. Advancing therapeutic strategies for inherited retinal degeneration: recommendations from the Monaciano Symposium. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Feb 9;56(2):918-31. doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-16049. Review. PMID: 25667399.

Bauwens M, De Zaeytijd J, Weisschuh N, Kohl S, Meire F, Dahan K, Depasse F, De Jaegere S, De Ravel T, De Rademaeker M, Loeys B, Coppieters F, Leroy BP, De Baere E. An augmented ABCA4 screen targeting noncoding regions reveals a deep intronic founder variant in Belgian Stargardt patients. Hum Mutat. 2015 Jan;36(1):39-42. doi: 10.1002/humu.22716. PMID: 25346251.

Bujakowska KM, Zhang Q, Siemiatkowska AM, Liu Q, Place E, Falk MJ, Consugar M, Lancelot ME, Antonio A, Lonjou C, Carpentier W, Mohand-Saïd S, den Hollander AI, Cremers FP, Leroy BP, Gai X, Sahel JA, van den Born LI, Collin RW, Zeitz C, Audo I, Pierce EA. Mutations in IFT172 cause isolated retinal degeneration and Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Hum Mol Genet. 2015 Jan 1;24(1):230-42. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu441. Epub 2014 Aug 28. PMID: 25168386.

2014

Astuti GD, Sun V, Bauwens M, Zobor D, Leroy BP, Omar A, Jurklies B, Lopez I, Ren H, Yazar V, Hamel C, Kellner U, Wissinger B, Kohl S, De Baere E, Collin RW, Koenekoop RK. Novel insights into the molecular pathogenesis of CYP4V2-associated Bietti's retinal dystrophy. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2015 Jan;3(1):14-29. doi: 10.1002/mgg3.109. Epub 2014 Sep 15. PMID: 25629076.

Burtscher V, Schicker K, Novikova E, Pöhn B, Stockner T, Kugler C, Singh A, Zeitz C, Lancelot ME, Audo I, Leroy BP, Freissmuth M, Herzig S, Matthes J, Koschak A. Spectrum of Cav1.4 dysfunction in congenital stationary night blindness type 2. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 Aug;1838(8):2053-65. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.04.023. Epub 2014 May 4. PMID: 24796500.

Thomas MG, Crosier M, Lindsay S, Kumar A, Araki M, Leroy BP, McLean RJ, Sheth V, Maconachie G, Thomas S, Moore AT, Gottlob I. Abnormal retinal development associated with FRMD7 mutations. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Aug 1;23(15):4086-93. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu122. Epub 2014 Mar 31. PMID: 24688117.

Coppieters F, Van Schil K, Bauwens M, Verdin H, De Jaegher A, Syx D, Sante T, Lefever S, Abdelmoula NB, Depasse F, Casteels I, de Ravel T, Meire F, Leroy BP, De Baere E. Identity-by-descent-guided mutation analysis and exome sequencing in consanguineous families reveals unusual clinical and molecular findings in retinal dystrophy. Genet Med. 2014 Sep;16(9):671-80. doi: 10.1038/gim.2014.24. Epub 2014 Mar 13. PMID: 24625443.

2013

Morice-Picard F, Lasseaux E, François S, Simon D, Rooryck C, Bieth E, Colin E, Bonneau D, Journel H, Walraedt S, Leroy BP, Meire F, Lacombe D, Arveiler B. SLC24A5 mutations are associated with non-syndromic oculocutaneous albinism. J Invest Dermatol. 2014 Feb;134(2):568-71. doi: 10.1038/jid.2013.360. Epub 2013 Aug 28. No abstract available. PMID: 23985994.

Campens L, Vanakker OM, Trachet B, Segers P, Leroy BP, De Zaeytijd J, Voet D, De Paepe A, De Backer T, De Backer J. Characterization of cardiovascular involvement in pseudoxanthoma elasticum families. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2013 Nov;33(11):2646-52. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.113.301901. Epub 2013 Aug 22. PMID: 23968982.

Schauwvlieghe PP, Torre KD, Coppieters F, Van Hoey A, De Baere E, De Zaeytijd J, Leroy BP, Brodie SE. High-resolution optical coherence tomography, autofluorescence, and infrared reflectance imaging in Sjögren reticular dystrophy. Retina. 2013 Nov-Dec;33(10):2118-25. doi: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3182899274. PMID: 23619632.

Gliem M, Zaeytijd JD, Finger RP, Holz FG, Leroy BP, Charbel Issa P. An update on the ocular phenotype in patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Front Genet. 2013 Apr 4;4:14. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00014. eCollection 2013. PMID: 23577018.

Roosing S, van den Born LI, Hoyng CB, Thiadens AA, de Baere E, Collin RW, Koenekoop RK, Leroy BP, van Moll-Ramirez N, Venselaar H, Riemslag FC, Cremers FP, Klaver CC, den Hollander AI. Maternal uniparental isodisomy of chromosome 6 reveals a TULP1 mutation as a novel cause of cone dysfunction. Ophthalmology. 2013 Jun;120(6):1239-46. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2012.12.005. Epub 2013 Mar 15. PMID: 23499059.

Terryn W, Vanholder R, Hemelsoet D, Leroy BP, Van Biesen W, De Schoenmakere G, Wuyts B, Claes K, De Backer J, De Paepe G, Fogo A, Praet M, Poppe B. Questioning the Pathogenic Role of the GLA p.Ala143Thr "Mutation" in Fabry Disease: Implications for Screening Studies and ERT. JIMD Rep. 2013;8:101-8. doi: 10.1007/8904_2012_167. Epub 2012 Jul 29. PMID: 23430526.

Peluso I, Conte I, Testa F, Dharmalingam G, Pizzo M, Collin RW, Meola N, Barbato S, Mutarelli M, Ziviello C, Barbarulo AM, Nigro V, Melone MA; European Retinal Disease Consortium, Simonelli F, Banfi S. The ADAMTS18 gene is responsible for autosomal recessive early onset severe retinal dystrophy. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2013 Jan 28;8:16. doi: 10.1186/1750-1172-8-16. PMID: 2335639.

Kasmi I, Delbeke P, Loyes B, Leroy BP. Lens subluxation with stretched ciliary processes in a girl with Goltz syndrome. Bull Soc Belge Ophtalmol. 2013;(322):77-82. PMID: 24923086.

Van Hoey A, Shah A, De Zaeytijd J, Van Den Broecke C, Decock C, Leroy BP. Bifocal optic and facial nerve t-cell lymphoma. Bull Soc Belge Ophtalmol. 2013;(322):63-9. PMID: 24923084.

Books

Chapters

Chapter 28 on “Bestrophinopathies” by BP Leroy in “Genetic Diseases of the Eye”, 2nd Edition, Edited by EI Traboulsi, Oxford University Press; ISBN-10: 0195326148; ISBN-13: 978-0195326147; Publication Date: December 29, 2011

Chapter 32 on “Congenital Stationary Night Blindness” by EI Traboulsi, BP Leroy, C Zeitz in “Genetic Diseases of the Eye”, 2nd Edition, Edited by EI Traboulsi, Oxford University Press; ISBN-10: 0195326148; ISBN-13: 978-0195326147; Publication Date: December 29, 2011