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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
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Information provided by: | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00807482 |
The overall short-term goals of this project include the following: 1) identify the genes that are key to the function of respiratory cilia to protect the normal lung; and 2) the effects of genetic mutations that adversely affect ciliary function and cause primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), which results in life-shortening lung disease. The long-term goal of this project is to develop better understanding of the underlying genetic variability that adversely modifies ciliary function, and predisposes to common airway diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Condition |
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Kartagener Syndrome |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Cohort, Prospective |
Official Title: | Pathogenesis of PCD Lung Disease |
Blood samples, buckle scrape, semen, and scrape biopsy of nasal cells
Estimated Enrollment: | 250 |
Study Start Date: | January 2004 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 2012 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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People who have been definitively diagnosed with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).
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A key component of lung defense is the efficiency of mucociliary clearance (MCC).
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a human genetic disorder with defective MCC. This ongoing project is designed to identify additional disease-causing mutations in PCD, and correlate the molecular etiologies with the ciliary phenotype (ultrastructure, wave form and beat frequency). We have recently shown that the normal human cilium has a distinctive waveform, i.e. beats in-plane with defined curvatures and amplitudes for the effective (forward) and recovery stroke. We hypothesize that discrete sets of genes contribute to the structure and function of the ciliary outer dynein arm (ODA), inner dynein arm (IDA), and central pair (CP) and radial spoke (RS) complex (CP/RS), and that we can identify novel genetic mutations in different structural components of the cilium that will have different effects on ciliary ultrastructure, wave form, and beat frequency. Importantly, we are now able to identify patients with PCD who do not have hallmark diagnostic ultrastructural defects, based on distinctive clinical phenotypes (including situs inversus), low or borderline nasal NO production, and abnormal ciliary motility. Identification of PCD patients with normal ciliary ultrastructure (~16% of PCD patients at UNC) offers the opportunity to discover mutations in genes that cause functional, but not ultrastructural, defects (such as DNAH11), and to correlate those mutations with ciliary waveform abnormalities. Over the past 4 years, we have made great progress in identifying mutations in 2 genes (DNAI1 and DNAH5) that cause ~60% of ODA defects in PCD, and ~35% of PCD overall. We will extend our search for disease causing mutations in PCD, using several different approaches, including studies of additional candidate genes, (guided by ultrastructure), plus insights from ciliary proteomics, and family-based studies. Taken together, these studies will provide new insights regarding the relationship of mutations in specific genes to ciliary ultrastructural and functional defects. These studies will not only greatly enhance our ability to diagnose PCD, but will also lead to discovery of "milder" genetic mutations associated with normal ciliary ultrastructure, and likely some residual ciliary function. Ultimately, this will allow future studies of the role of partial loss of ciliary function in the predisposition to more common airways diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Sampling Method: | Probability Sample |
Patients who have a high suspicion for the diagnosis of PCD, based on clinical features.
Inclusion Criteria:
United States, North Carolina | |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Recruiting |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599 | |
Contact: Michael R. Knowles, MD 919-966-6780 knowles@med.unc.edu | |
Contact: Beth Godwin, BA 919-966-6780 godwine@med.unc.edu |
Principal Investigator: | Michael R. Knowles, MD | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Responsible Party: | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( Michael R. Knowles, MD ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 572, 5 R01 HL071798 |
Study First Received: | December 11, 2008 |
Last Updated: | December 29, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00807482 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Mucociliary Clearance Genetic Mutation |
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases Heart Diseases Primary ciliary dyskinesia Cardiovascular Abnormalities Bronchiectasis Situs Inversus Dyskinesias Kartagener Syndrome Dextrocardia |
Kartagener syndrome Situs inversus viscerum Genetic Diseases, Inborn Respiratory Tract Diseases Lung Diseases Ciliary Motility Disorders Congenital Abnormalities Heart Defects, Congenital |
Respiratory System Abnormalities Pathologic Processes Disease |
Bronchial Diseases Syndrome Cardiovascular Diseases |