Clinical trial NCT00821132: Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS
Official title: Identification of Genes Causing Familial ALS or Increasing Risk for Sporadic ALS and ALS With Frontotemporal Dementia and Understanding Disease Mechanism.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
ALS With Frontotemporal Dementia (ALS/FTD)
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Motor Neuron Disease (MND)
Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
Sporadic ALS (SALS)
Keywords: FALS
ALS
ALS/FTD
SALS
MND
PLS
Lead sponsor: Northwestern University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2009-01-13
Enrollment: 13521
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: FAMILY_BASED
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Open to all ALS patients and selected family members

Brief summary: We are collecting blood samples, clinical and family information from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) patients and their families to identify causes of ALS and ALS/dementia.

Detailed description: The investigators' long term goals are to improve diagnosis and develop effective treatments that arrest or ameliorate symptoms of ALS, and possibly delay or prevent disease onset in individuals at risk for developing familial ALS (FALS). In order to do this one must understand how disease develops at a molecular level. Identification of genes that increase risk for developing all types of ALS will reveal the pathways of molecular events that are involved in ALS.

The investigators are collecting blood samples, family and medical histories of patients with all types of ALS, (familial and sporadic, with and without frontotemporal dementia, and primary lateral sclerosis and particular family members. Samples are coded to maintain confidentiality. Travel is not necessary.

As well as seeking to identify new genes implicated in ALS, the investigators continue our study of families with known genetic mutations to more fully characterize that disease mechanism.

Linkage analysis and affected relative pair analysis will be used to identify causative FALS genes and disequilibrium analysis and association studies are being done for sporadic ALS.

Results from these studies will provide insight into the underlying disease mechanisms of ALS and provide targets for therapeutic interventions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS and frontotemporal dementia
* Selected family members, generally brothers and sisters of an ALS patient, the patient's parents

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under 18 years old

Primary outcomes:
measure: Identification of genes that increase risk for sporadic ALS or cause inherited ALS.
timeFrame: Dec 2025
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
state: Illinois
Study officials:
affiliation: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
name: Teepu Siddique, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Deng HX, Klein CJ, Yan J, Shi Y, Wu Y, Fecto F, Yau HJ, Yang Y, Zhai H, Siddique N, Hedley-Whyte ET, Delong R, Martina M, Dyck PJ, Siddique T. Scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy and CMT2C are allelic disorders caused by alterations in TRPV4. Nat Genet. 2010 Feb;42(2):165-9. doi: 10.1038/ng.509. Epub 2009 Dec 27.
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citation: Bigio EH, Wu JY, Deng HX, Bit-Ivan EN, Mao Q, Ganti R, Peterson M, Siddique N, Geula C, Siddique T, Mesulam M. Inclusions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 proteinopathy (FTLD-TDP) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but not FTLD with FUS proteinopathy (FTLD-FUS), have properties of amyloid. Acta Neuropathol. 2013 Mar;125(3):463-5. doi: 10.1007/s00401-013-1089-6. Epub 2013 Feb 3. No abstract available.
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citation: Deng HX, Bigio EH, Siddique T. Detection of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases. Methods Mol Biol. 2011;793:259-72. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-328-8_17.
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citation: Subramony SH, Ashizawa T, Langford L, McKenna R, Avvaru B, Siddique T, Vedanarayanan V. Confirmation of the severe phenotypic effect of serine at codon 41 of the superoxide dismutase 1 gene. Muscle Nerve. 2011 Oct;44(4):499-502. doi: 10.1002/mus.22117. Epub 2011 Jul 13.
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citation: Wang X, Blanchard J, Grundke-Iqbal I, Wegiel J, Deng HX, Siddique T, Iqbal K. Alzheimer disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: an etiopathogenic connection. Acta Neuropathol. 2014 Feb;127(2):243-56. doi: 10.1007/s00401-013-1175-9. Epub 2013 Oct 18.
citation: Fecto F, Siddique T. UBQLN2/P62 cellular recycling pathways in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Muscle Nerve. 2012 Feb;45(2):157-62. doi: 10.1002/mus.23278.
citation: Gallardo G, Barowski J, Ravits J, Siddique T, Lingrel JB, Robertson J, Steen H, Bonni A. An alpha2-Na/K ATPase/alpha-adducin complex in astrocytes triggers non-cell autonomous neurodegeneration. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Dec;17(12):1710-9. doi: 10.1038/nn.3853. Epub 2014 Oct 26.
citation: Fawzi AA, Simonett JM, Purta P, Moss HE, Lowry JL, Deng HX, Siddique N, Sufit R, Bigio EH, Volpe NJ, Siddique T. Clinicopathologic report of ocular involvement in ALS patients with C9orf72 mutation. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2014 Dec;15(7-8):569-80. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2014.951941. Epub 2014 Oct 16.
citation: Gorrie GH, Fecto F, Radzicki D, Weiss C, Shi Y, Dong H, Zhai H, Fu R, Liu E, Li S, Arrat H, Bigio EH, Disterhoft JF, Martina M, Mugnaini E, Siddique T, Deng HX. Dendritic spinopathy in transgenic mice expressing ALS/dementia-linked mutant UBQLN2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Oct 7;111(40):14524-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1405741111. Epub 2014 Sep 22.
citation: Hartzfeld DE, Siddique N, Victorson D, O'Neill S, Kinsley L, Siddique T. Reproductive decision-making among individuals at risk for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2015 Mar;16(1-2):114-9. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2014.951945. Epub 2014 Sep 10.
citation: Ajroud-Driss S, Siddique T. Sporadic and hereditary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015 Apr;1852(4):679-84. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.08.010. Epub 2014 Sep 1.
citation: Fecto F, Esengul YT, Siddique T. Protein recycling pathways in neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2014 Mar 6;6(2):13. doi: 10.1186/alzrt243. eCollection 2014.
citation: Lukas TJ, Schiltz GE, Arrat H, Scheidt K, Siddique T. Discovery of 1,3,4-oxidiazole scaffold compounds as inhibitors of superoxide dismutase expression. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2014 Mar 15;24(6):1532-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.01.078. Epub 2014 Feb 8.
citation: Al-Chalabi A, Kwak S, Mehler M, Rouleau G, Siddique T, Strong M, Leigh PN. Genetic and epigenetic studies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2013 May;14 Suppl 1:44-52. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2013.778571.
citation: Volpe NJ, Simonett J, Fawzi AA, Siddique T. Ophthalmic Manifestations of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (An American Ophthalmological Society Thesis). Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc. 2015;113:T12.
citation: Arrat H, Lukas TJ, Siddique T. ACTH (Acthar Gel) Reduces Toxic SOD1 Protein Linked to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Transgenic Mice: A Novel Observation. PLoS One. 2015 May 8;10(5):e0125638. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125638. eCollection 2015.
citation: Radzicki D, Liu E, Deng HX, Siddique T, Martina M. Early Impairment of Synaptic and Intrinsic Excitability in Mice Expressing ALS/Dementia-Linked Mutant UBQLN2. Front Cell Neurosci. 2016 Sep 20;10:216. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2016.00216. eCollection 2016.
citation: Yang Y, Zhang L, Lynch DR, Lukas T, Ahmeti K, Sleiman PM, Ryan E, Schadt KA, Newman JH, Deng HX, Siddique N, Siddique T. Compound heterozygote mutations in SPG7 in a family with adult-onset primary lateral sclerosis. Neurol Genet. 2016 Mar 3;2(2):e60. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000060. eCollection 2016 Apr.
citation: Simonett JM, Huang R, Siddique N, Farsiu S, Siddique T, Volpe NJ, Fawzi AA. Macular sub-layer thinning and association with pulmonary function tests in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Sci Rep. 2016 Jul 7;6:29187. doi: 10.1038/srep29187.
citation: Lee S, Shang Y, Redmond SA, Urisman A, Tang AA, Li KH, Burlingame AL, Pak RA, Jovicic A, Gitler AD, Wang J, Gray NS, Seeley WW, Siddique T, Bigio EH, Lee VM, Trojanowski JQ, Chan JR, Huang EJ. Activation of HIPK2 Promotes ER Stress-Mediated Neurodegeneration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neuron. 2016 Jul 6;91(1):41-55. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.05.021. Epub 2016 Jun 16.
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citation: Bali T, Self W, Liu J, Siddique T, Wang LH, Bird TD, Ratti E, Atassi N, Boylan KB, Glass JD, Maragakis NJ, Caress JB, McCluskey LF, Appel SH, Wymer JP, Gibson S, Zinman L, Mozaffar T, Callaghan B, McVey AL, Jockel-Balsarotti J, Allred P, Fisher ER, Lopate G, Pestronk A, Cudkowicz ME, Miller TM. Defining SOD1 ALS natural history to guide therapeutic clinical trial design. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 Feb;88(2):99-105. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2016-313521. Epub 2016 Jun 3.
citation: Pytte J, Flynn LL, Anderton RS, Mastaglia FL, Theunissen F, James I, Pfaff A, Koks S, Saunders AM, Bedlack R, Burns DK, Lutz MW, Siddique N, Siddique T, Roses AD, Akkari PA. Disease-modifying effects of an SCAF4 structural variant in a predominantly SOD1 ALS cohort. Neurol Genet. 2020 Jul 1;6(4):e470. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000470. eCollection 2020 Aug.