Clinical trial NCT00001813: Examination of Clinical and Laboratory Abnormalities in Patients With Defective DNA Repair: Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Cockayne Syndrome, or Trichothiodystrophy
Official title: Examination of Clinical and Laboratory Abnormalities in Patients With Defective DNA Repair: Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Cockayne Syndrome, or Trichothiodystrophy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Cockayne Syndrome
Skin Neoplasms
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Trichothiodystrophy Syndromes
Genodermatosis
Keywords: Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Trichothiodystrophy
Cockayne Syndrome
Skin Cancer
DNA Repair
Natural History
Lead sponsor: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Sponsor class: NIH
First posted: 1999-11-04
Enrollment: 709
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients will be sought by contacting professional organizations (such as the American Academy of Dermatology-XP Task Force), lay support groups (such as the XP Society and the Share and Care CS Support Network) or by direct referral. Healthy volunteers or NIH staff will be recruited through the Program for Healthy Volunteers (CRVP@mail.cc.nih.gov), through the Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison Office (prpl@mail.cc.nih.gov), or as a self-referral through the clinicaltrials.gov web site (http://clinicaltrials.gov). Healthy volunteers may also be approached by a member of the LCBG, NCI regarding interest in participating on this protocol.

Brief summary: Four rare genetic diseases, xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS), the XP/CS complex and trichothiodystrophy (TTD) have defective DNA excision repair although only XP has increased cancer susceptibility. We plan to perform careful clinical examination of selected patients with XP, XP/CS, CS, or TTD and follow their clinical course. We will obtain tissue (skin, blood, hair, buccal swabs) for laboratory examination of DNA repair and for genetic analysis. We hope to be able to correlate these laboratory abnormalities with the clinical features to better understand the mechanism of cancer prevention by DNA repair. Patients will be offered counseling and education for cancer control.

Detailed description: Three rare genetic diseases, xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS), and trichothiodystrophy (TTD) have defective DNA excision repair although only XP has increased cancer susceptibility. We plan to perform careful clinical examination of selected patients with XP, CS, TTD, or overlap syndromes to follow their clinical course. We will obtain tissue (skin, blood, hair, or buccal cells) for laboratory examination of DNA repair and for histologic, protein, biochemical, and genetic analysis. We hope to be able to correlate these laboratory abnormalities with the clinical features to better understand the mechanism of cancer prevention by DNA repair. Patients will be offered counseling and education for cancer control.

Eligibility criteria: * INCLUSION CRITERIA:
* Subjects age 6 weeks and above:

  * with clinical and/or laboratory documentation of typical features or suggestive clinical features of XP, CS, TTD, or overlap syndromes or
  * that are first degree relatives or other family members of participants with XP, CS, TTD, or overlap syndromes
* Healthy volunteers of age 1 year and above (including NIH employees) willing to donate blood, skin, buccal cells, or hair.
* Patients or legally authorized representatives must provide informed consent.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

-Inability or unwillingness to provide tissue (skin, blood, buccal cells or hair) for laboratory studies.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Identify patients with genetic diseases
timeFrame: Up to 3 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Diagnosis confirmation
timeFrame: up to 3 days
measure: Tissue collection
timeFrame: up to 3 days
measure: identify molecular defects
timeFrame: up to 3 days
measure: overall survival
timeFrame: yearly
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bethesda
country: United States
facility: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
state: Maryland
Study officials:
affiliation: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: Michael R Sargen, M.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Barrett SF, Robbins JH, Tarone RE, Kraemer KH. Evidence for defective repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers with normal repair of other DNA photoproducts in a transcriptionally active gene transfected into Cockayne syndrome cells. Mutat Res. 1991 Nov;255(3):281-91. doi: 10.1016/0921-8777(91)90032-k.
citation: Boltshauser E, Yalcinkaya C, Wichmann W, Reutter F, Prader A, Valavanis A. MRI in Cockayne syndrome type I. Neuroradiology. 1989;31(3):276-7. doi: 10.1007/BF00344359.
citation: Merideth M, Tamura D, Angra D, Khan SG, Ferrell J, Goldstein AM, DiGiovanna JJ, Kraemer KH. Reproductive Health in Xeroderma Pigmentosum: Features of Premature Aging. Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Oct;134(4):814-819. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003490.
citation: Atkinson EC, Thiara D, Tamura D, DiGiovanna JJ, Kraemer KH, Hadigan C. Growth and nutrition in children with trichothiodystrophy. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2014 Oct;59(4):458-64. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000000458.