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Genetic Basis of Primary Immunodeficiencies
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC), May 2008
Sponsored by: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Information provided by: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001788
  Purpose

The purpose of this study is to evaluate patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders to identify patients with mutations of the genes for the following proteins: Jak3, STAT1, STAT4, interleukin-7, interleukin-7 receptor, interleukin-12 receptor subunits, and others.

Patients will undergo screening history, physical examination, and clinical laboratory evaluation at referring institutions and tissue samples, or cell lines will be sent to the NIH. We will establish cell lines if necessary, prepare DNA and RNA for molecular genetic analysis and study cytokine signal transduction in patient cell lines.


Condition
Immunologic Deficiency Syndrome

Drug Information available for: Interleukin-12
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Molecular Basis of Primary Immunodeficiencies

Further study details as provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):

Study Start Date: October 1998
Detailed Description:

The purpose of this study is to evaluate patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders to identify patients with mutations of the genes for the following proteins: Jak3, STAT1, STAT4, interleukin-7, interleukin-7 receptor, interleukin-12 receptor subunits, and others. Patients will undergo screening history, physical examination, and clinical laboratory evaluation at referring institutions and tissue samples, or cell lines will be sent to the NIH. We will establish cell lines if necessary, prepare DNA and RNA for molecular genetic analysis and study cytokine signal transduction in patient cell lines.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria
  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Samples from patients with known or suspected primary immunodeficiencies, including those treated with stem cell transplants or gene correction therapy, and their families will be accepted worldwide primarily from tertiary care centers that treat patients with such immunodeficiencies.

Such patients will have documented evidence of either opportunistic infection, recurrent infection, or unusually severe responses to infectious agents that cause mild illness in unaffected individuals.

Either patient-derived B cell lines or primary blood samples will be accepted although in some cases buccal swabs will also be accepted.

Samples will not be obtained from unaffected children.

Infants with SCID or other primary immunodeficiency will not be seen; their physicians will care them for and only clinical material will be sent on such patients.

Medically stable patients with mild to moderate immunodeficiency may be seen at the NIH.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Inability to provide informed consent.

A presence of any medical condition that would, in the opinion of the investigators, confuse the interpretation of the study (e.g., HIV infection).

  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00001788

Contacts
Contact: Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison Office (800) 411-1222 prpl@mail.cc.nih.gov
Contact: TTY 1-866-411-1010

Locations
United States, Maryland
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike Recruiting
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
Sponsors and Collaborators
  More Information

NIH Clinical Center Detailed Web Page  This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Publications:
Study ID Numbers: 990004, 99-AR-0004
Study First Received: November 3, 1999
Last Updated: November 14, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001788  
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Cytokine
Stat
Jak
IL-12
Mutation
Immunodeficiency

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Interleukin-12
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pathologic Processes
Disease
Immune System Diseases
Syndrome

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 15, 2009