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Genetic and Clinical Study of Patients With Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Cockayne Syndrome, or Trichothiodystrophy
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified by National Cancer Institute (NCI), December 2008
Sponsored by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004044
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Genetic studies may help in understanding the genetic processes involved in the development of some types of cancer and may lead to both earlier detection and prevention of tumors.

PURPOSE: Clinical trial to study the genetic and clinical features of patients who have xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome, the xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome complex, or trichothiodystrophy.


Condition Intervention
Head and Neck Cancer
Intraocular Melanoma
Melanoma (Skin)
Non-Melanomatous Skin Cancer
Precancerous/Nonmalignant Condition
Procedure: DNA ploidy analysis
Procedure: mutation analysis

Genetics Home Reference related topics: Cockayne syndrome familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies pseudoachondroplasia retinoblastoma
MedlinePlus related topics: Cancer Head and Neck Cancer Melanoma Skin Cancer
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Examination of Clinical and Laboratory Abnormalities in Patients With Defective DNA Repair: Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Cockayne Syndrome, or Trichothiodystrophy

Further study details as provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

Estimated Enrollment: 250
Study Start Date: June 2000
Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Identify patients or confirm suspected cases of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS), XP/CS, or trichothiodystrophy (TTD).
  • Document presence or absence of cancers (skin, eye, tongue, or internal) in these patients.
  • Document atypical features or unusual environmental exposures of these patients.
  • Examine tissue (skin, blood, hair, or buccal swabs) from these patients and their first degree relatives for DNA repair and genetic analysis.
  • Identify molecular defects in the DNA repair genes in cells from these patients and correlate the defects with clinical features.
  • Follow the clinical course of selected patients.

OUTLINE: Patients are evaluated initially by phone, followed by a complete history and physical exam, including appropriate clinical and laboratory tests.

Tissue (skin, blood, buccal swabs, or hair) is obtained for laboratory studies of the effects of DNA damage, measurement of DNA repair, genetic analysis of DNA, and/or assessment of immunologic abnormalities.

If malignancies are detected during examinations and tissue collections, patients are referred for treatment. Genetic counseling is also available.

Patients are followed annually.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 500 patients will be accrued for this study.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Clinical documentation of the typical features of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS), the XP/CS complex, or trichothiodystrophy OR
  • Laboratory documentation of defective DNA repair OR
  • Suggestive clinical features of one of these diseases OR
  • First degree family member or relative of affected patient
  • Must be willing or able to provide tissue sample (skin, blood, buccal cells, or hair) for laboratory studies

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • Any age

Performance status:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Not specified

Hepatic:

  • Not specified

Renal:

  • Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • Not specified

Surgery

  • Not specified
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00004044

Locations
United States, Maryland
Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office Recruiting
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892-1182
Contact: Clinical Trials Office - Warren Grant Magnusen Clinical Center     888-NCI-1937        
Israel
Sackler Faculty of Medicine Recruiting
Tel-Aviv, Israel, 69978
Contact: Hanoch Slor, MD     972-3-545-9657        
Turkey
Inonu University School of Medicine Recruiting
Malatya, Turkey
Contact: Engin Gozukara, PhD, MD     90-422-341-0045        
Yuzuncu Yil University School of Medicine Recruiting
Van, Turkey, 65200
Contact: Ahmet Metin, MD     90-432-216-7325        
Sponsors and Collaborators
Investigators
Study Chair: Kenneth H. Kraemer, MD NCI - Basic Research Laboratory
  More Information

Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database  This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Publications of Results:
Khan SG, Oh KS, Shahlavi T, Ueda T, Busch DB, Inui H, Emmert S, Imoto K, Muniz-Medina V, Baker CC, DiGiovanna JJ, Schmidt D, Khadavi A, Metin A, Gozukara E, Slor H, Sarasin A, Kraemer KH. Reduced XPC DNA repair gene mRNA levels in clinically normal parents of xeroderma pigmentosum patients. Carcinogenesis. 2006 Jan;27(1):84-94. Epub 2005 Aug 4.
Liang C, Kraemer KH, Morris A, Schiffmann R, Price VH, Menefee E, DiGiovanna JJ. Characterization of tiger-tail banding and hair shaft abnormalities in trichothiodystrophy. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005 Feb;52(2):224-32.
Khan SG, Metin A, Gozukara E, Inui H, Shahlavi T, Muniz-Medina V, Baker CC, Ueda T, Aiken JR, Schneider TD, Kraemer KH. Two essential splice lariat branchpoint sequences in one intron in a xeroderma pigmentosum DNA repair gene: mutations result in reduced XPC mRNA levels that correlate with cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet. 2004 Feb 1;13(3):343-52. Epub 2003 Dec 8.
Khan S, Shahlavi T, Busch DB: Identification of XP-C heterozygotes using real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR: a novel approach to study the cancer susceptibility in XP-C gene carriers. [Abstract] The Fourth Joint Meeting of the European Society for Dermatology Research (ESDR), the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (JSID), and the Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID), 30 April - 4 May, Miami, Florida. A-0647, 100, 2003.
Liang C, Price V, Kraemer KH: Tiger tail banding and hair shaft abnormalities in trichothiodystrophy and other hair disorders. [Abstract] The Fourth Joint Meeting of the European Society for Dermatology Research (ESDR), the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (JSID), and the Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID), 30 April - 4 May, Miami, Florida. A-0792, 107, 2003.
Ueda T, Khan SG, Shahlavi T: Rapid RFLP detection of mutations and functional alterations in the human XPD DNA repair gene. [Abstract] The Fourth Joint Meeting of the European Society for Dermatology Research (ESDR), the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (JSID), and the Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID), 30 April - 4 May, Miami, Florida. A-0644, 100, 2003.
Emmert S, Slor H, Busch DB, Batko S, Albert RB, Coleman D, Khan SG, Abu-Libdeh B, DiGiovanna JJ, Cunningham BB, Lee MM, Crollick J, Inui H, Ueda T, Hedayati M, Grossman L, Shahlavi T, Cleaver JE, Kraemer KH. Relationship of neurologic degeneration to genotype in three xeroderma pigmentosum group G patients. J Invest Dermatol. 2002 Jun;118(6):972-82. Erratum in: J Invest Dermatol. 2003 Jan;120(1):173.
Yavuz S, Yavuz AS, Kraemer KH, Lipsky PE. The role of polymerase eta in somatic hypermutation determined by analysis of mutations in a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum variant. J Immunol. 2002 Oct 1;169(7):3825-30.
Broughton BC, Berneburg M, Fawcett H, Taylor EM, Arlett CF, Nardo T, Stefanini M, Menefee E, Price VH, Queille S, Sarasin A, Bohnert E, Krutmann J, Davidson R, Kraemer KH, Lehmann AR. Two individuals with features of both xeroderma pigmentosum and trichothiodystrophy highlight the complexity of the clinical outcomes of mutations in the XPD gene. Hum Mol Genet. 2001 Oct 15;10(22):2539-47.
Gozukara EM, Khan SG, Metin A, Emmert S, Busch DB, Shahlavi T, Coleman DM, Miller M, Chinsomboon N, Stefanini M, Kraemer KH. A stop codon in xeroderma pigmentosum group C families in Turkey and Italy: molecular genetic evidence for a common ancestor. J Invest Dermatol. 2001 Aug;117(2):197-204.
Lindenbaum Y, Dickson D, Rosenbaum P, Kraemer K, Robbins I, Rapin I. Xeroderma pigmentosum/cockayne syndrome complex: first neuropathological study and review of eight other cases. Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2001;5(6):225-42. Review.
Zeng X, Winter DB, Kasmer C, Kraemer KH, Lehmann AR, Gearhart PJ. DNA polymerase eta is an A-T mutator in somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin variable genes. Nat Immunol. 2001 Jun;2(6):537-41.
Slor H, Batko S, Khan SG, Sobe T, Emmert S, Khadavi A, Frumkin A, Busch DB, Albert RB, Kraemer KH. Clinical, cellular, and molecular features of an Israeli xeroderma pigmentosum family with a frameshift mutation in the XPC gene: sun protection prolongs life. J Invest Dermatol. 2000 Dec;115(6):974-80.

Other Publications:
Study ID Numbers: CDR0000067084, NCI-99-C-0099
Study First Received: December 10, 1999
Last Updated: December 23, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004044  
Health Authority: Unspecified

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
basal cell carcinoma of the skin
squamous cell carcinoma of the skin
actinic keratosis
iris melanoma
ciliary body and choroid melanoma, medium/large size
ciliary body and choroid melanoma, small size
extraocular extension melanoma
stage I melanoma
stage I squamous cell carcinoma of the lip and oral cavity

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Dwarfism
Keratosis
Photosensitivity Disorders
Precancerous Conditions
Squamous cell carcinoma
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bone Diseases
Melanoma
Uveal melanoma
Cockayne's syndrome
Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Intraocular melanoma
Nevus, Pigmented
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Trichothiodystrophy
Carcinoma, squamous cell
Bone Diseases, Developmental
Abnormalities, Multiple
Neuroepithelioma
Congenital Abnormalities
Skin Diseases, Genetic
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Metabolic Diseases
Skin Diseases
Eye Neoplasms
Eye Diseases
Pigmentation Disorders
Skin Abnormalities
Carcinoma, Basal Cell

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
DNA Repair-Deficiency Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Nevi and Melanomas

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009