Giant Axonal Neuropathy Natural History Study

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Wadhamini

Columbia University

Washirika

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

JARIBIO LA KLINIKI: NCT01503125

BioSeek: nct01503125

Maneno muhimu

Kikemikali

Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN) is a devastating and rare childhood disease. Children with GAN develop increasing muscle weakness, impaired sensation, and at times mental retardation. GAN starts in infancy, leads to significant disability, and typically leads to death within the first 30 years of life. GAN is caused by a defect in the "gigaxonin" (GAN) gene, resulting in pathologically enlarged and dysfunctional nerves. Currently, there is no effective therapy. To find out what medications can help patients with GAN, the investigators have to conduct clinical trials. In this study, the investigators propose to prepare for future clinical trials and will invite GAN patients to join our research effort.

The investigators will examine them regularly to better understand their disease. The visits will include questions, a physical exam, blood drawing, a lumbar puncture, and a skin biopsy. The visits will also include tests that assess the electrical conductivity of the patients' nerves as well as a test to measure the patients' brain wave activity. In addition, the investigators will be performing tests to evaluate the patients' motor function, their vision, and thinking ability. Identifying an effective GAN treatment is very important because there is currently none. Clinical trials are the only way to decide whether a new treatment works in GAN patients or not.

With the future objective of conducting clinical trials in GAN, the proposed project has three specific aims. The first is to plan for clinical trials by developing reliable outcome measures, and establishing the infrastructure needed to carry out efficient clinical trials. The second is to further characterize the patient population from a clinical and molecular point of view, and the third aim is to utilize the information gathered in this study to further pre-clinical GAN drug development to select candidate drugs.

Maelezo

Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN) is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder that appears during childhood and affects both the central and peripheral nervous systems. This disorder is generally characterized by motor and sensory involvement including progressive and predominant distal clumsiness, muscle weakness, and pronounced gait disturbances. GAN is caused by various mutations in the GAN gene that encodes the protein gigaxonin. This leads to giant axonal swelling and degeneration due to substantial accumulation of neurofilaments in the axon. Currently, there is no effective therapy, with onset occurring before the age of seven, and death usually occurring between the first and third decade of life.

Tarehe

Imethibitishwa Mwisho:	12/31/2016
Iliyowasilishwa Kwanza:	12/28/2011
Uandikishaji uliokadiriwa Uliwasilishwa:	12/29/2011
Iliyotumwa Kwanza:	01/01/2012
Sasisho la Mwisho Liliwasilishwa:	01/25/2017
Sasisho la Mwisho Lilichapishwa:	01/26/2017
Tarehe halisi ya kuanza kwa masomo:	11/30/2011
Tarehe ya Kukamilisha Msingi iliyokadiriwa:	11/30/2014
Tarehe ya Kukamilisha Utafiti:	09/30/2015

Hali au ugonjwa

Giant Axonal Neuropathy

Awamu

Vigezo vya Kustahiki

Jinsia Inastahiki Kujifunza	All
Njia ya sampuli	Non-Probability Sample
Hupokea Wajitolea wa Afya	Ndio
Vigezo	Inclusion Criteria: 1. Clinical diagnosis of Giant Axonal Neuropathy. 2. Documentation of the presence of a mutation in the GAN gene as determined by gene sequencing from a CAP/CLIA certified laboratory or an equivalent organization. 3. Parents or if applicable subjects must give informed consent must be capable of complying with the study procedures. 4. Willing and able to comply with all protocol requirements and procedures. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Unwilling or unable to travel to Columbia University Medical Center. 2. Unstable medical condition precluding participation. 3. Significant respiratory compromise that would interfere with safe travel to site of evaluation. 4. Having a contraindication to the MRI safety requirements, including pacemaker or other implanted electrical device, brain stimulator, some types of dental implants, aneurysm clips (metal clips on the wall of a large artery), metallic prostheses (including metal pins and rods, heart valves, and cochlear implants), implanted delivery pump, shrapnel fragments, or history of claustrophobia.

Matokeo

Hatua za Matokeo ya Msingi

1. Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) [Up to 24 months]

Hatua za Matokeo ya Sekondari

1. Nerve Conduction Study (NCS)/Motor Unit Number Estimation (MUNE) [Up to 24 months]

2. Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) [Up to 24 months]

3. Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER) [Up to 24 months]

4. Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)/Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) [Up to 24 months]

Giant Axonal Neuropathy Natural History Study

Maneno muhimu

asthenia

atrophy

neurodegenerative diseases

muscle weakness

giant axonal neuropathy

hypesthesia