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Conventional genetic testing strategies, such as panel-based sequencing and whole exome sequencing (WES), can only elucidate the genetic etiology in approximately 60% of IRD patients. Studies have suggested that unsolved IRD cases could be attributed to previously undetected structural variants (SVs) and intronic variants in IRD-related genes. The aim of our study was to obtain a definitive genetic diagnosis by employing whole genome sequencing (WGS) in IRD cases where the causative genes were inconclusive following an initial screening by panel sequencing. A total of 271 unresolved IRD patients and their available family members (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009646) were screened using WGS to identify pathogenic SVs and intronic variants in 792 known ocular disease genes. Overall, 13% (34\/271) of IRD patients received a confirmed genetic diagnosis, among which 7% were exclusively attributed to SVs, 4% to a combination of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and SVs while another 2% were linked to intronic variants. 22 SVs, 3 deep-intronic variants, and 2 non-canonical splice-site variants across 14 IRD genes were identified in the entire cohort. Notably, all of these detected SVs and intronic variants were novel pathogenic variants. Among those, 74% (20\/27) of variants were found in genes causally linked to Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), with the gene <jats:italic>EYS<\/jats:italic> being the most frequently affected by SVs. 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