Clinical trial NCT03417856: Defining the Skin and Blood Biomarkers of Ichthyosis
Official title: Defining the Skin and Blood Biomarkers of Ichthyosis
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Conditions: Ichthyosis
Netherton Syndrome
Keywords: Ichthyosis
Netherton Syndrome
Lead sponsor: Northwestern University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
name: Galderma R&D
First posted: 2018-01-31
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 1
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 150 subjects (1 year to 60 years of age) with diagnosis of Netherton Syndrome or ichthyosis will be enrolled. Approximately 50 healthy controls will be enrolled. The blood sample, skin biopsy, and buccal/saliva sample may be obtained from the same ichthyosis subject. However there will be separate groups of control patients for the skin biopsies and blood sample studies.

Brief summary: Ichthyosis is a group of genetic skin disorders that present with dry, thickened, scaly, or flaky skin. As of today, there is no cure or treatment. Doctors can only treat the dry skin with different types of emollients to soften the scale. A deeper understanding of this disease is required to develop better treatments. There are different types of cells and cell-produced signals (biomarkers) that are being studied in order to help find these new treatments. Looking at biomarkers has been successful in helping us to understand other skin disorders better. The purpose of this study is to determine which blood and skin biomarkers characterize ichthyosis.

Hypothesis: We predict that the biomarkers correlating with disease activity in Netherton syndrome will be different than the biomarkers found to correlate with the lamellar and other ichthyosis phenotype.

Detailed description: Objectives:

1. To define a panel of skin and blood biomarkers associated with disease activity and pruritus in Netherton syndrome, lamellar ichthyosis, and other ichthyosis subtypes.
2. To determine if blood samples can serve as surrogates for skin immune activation and will correlate with disease severity.
3. To determine FLG, SPINK5, TGM1, or other mutation via buccal/saliva samples in ichthyosis subjects
4. To determine differences in alterations of epidermal lipids and proteins in the outer stratum corneum of epidermis collected from tape strips in patients with ichthyosis compared to the general population. There will also be a difference detected in epidermal lipids from blood samples.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Control and ichthyosis subjects may be of either sex and must be between 1-60 years of age at the time of enrollment
* Ichthyosis subjects include individuals with a diagnosis Netherton syndrome, lamellar ichthyosis, or other ichthyosis subtypes
* Ichthyosis subjects should not have administered systemic immunosuppressant therapy in the month before the study
* Ichthyosis subjects should not use topical immunosuppressants in the week before the study
* Ichthyosis subjects should not have applied emollients to the planned biopsy sites within 12 hours before biopsy, but can be applied elsewhere
* Controls may have no inflammatory disease, atopy, or obvious xerosis (urticaria, food allergy, allergic rhinitis or conjunctivitis, asthma)
* Controls for skin sampling may have no observable abnormality in the sampled skin and, to further assure the normality of the "normal" skin edges, must not have evidence of inflammation or epidermal change in the lesion to be surgically removed
* Subjects and guardians of minors must sign the approved IRB consent form(s) prior to initiation of the study protocol

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subjects who are unable to give informed consent or assent
* Subjects who administered anti-inflammatory systemic and topical therapy or emollients that do not comply with inclusion criteria prior to blood and biopsy sampling
* Subjects whose main diagnosis is deemed unsafe by the study investigator for study participation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cellular infiltrates
timeFrame: One year
measure: Gene expression
timeFrame: One year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Correlation of biomarkers to quality of life
timeFrame: One year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Northbrook Lurie Children's Outpatient Clinic
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Northwestern University
state: Illinois
city: New York city
country: United States
facility: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
state: New York
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