Brain Development Research Program

Brain Disorders Clinical Trial

Official title:

Disorders of Cerebral Development: A Phenotypic and Genetic Analysis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00305305
• Other study ID #: UCSF-PCRC #2206
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: August 2003
• Est. completion date: January 2025

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: Carolyn Le, BA, BS
• Phone: 415-502-8039
• Email: Carolyn.Le[@]ucsf.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Dr. Elliott Sherr and his collaborators at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) are studying the genetic causes of disorders of cognition and epilepsy, in particular disorders of brain development that affect the corpus callosum, such as Aicardi syndrome, as well as two additional brain malformations, polymicrogyria and Dandy-Walker malformation. The goal of the investigators' research is to use a better understanding of the underlying genetic causes as a foundation to develop better treatments for these groups of patients.

Description:

We are studying both the genetics and clinical features of these disorders. We hope to understand the problems faced by individuals with these disorders as well as their causes. In the future, we hope to develop therapies that are geared specifically for individuals based on the underlying biology. To participate in the study, you will be asked to provide a copy of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) documenting Agenesis Corpus Callosum (ACC), Polymicrogyria (PMG), or Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM), clinical information, and saliva or blood samples from the affected individual and from the parents. Please see contact information and our webpage below.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 2000
• Est. completion date: January 2025
• Est. primary completion date: January 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of agenesis or dysgenesis of the corpus callosum, polymicrogyria, or Dandy-Walker malformation

• Should be confirmed by an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of the brain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Fully formed but hypoplastic corpus callosum

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Aicardi Syndrome
• Brain Diseases
• Brain Disorders

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California, San francisco	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco	California Institute of Technology, University of Washington

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (19)

Bina R, Matalon D, Fregeau B, Tarsitano JJ, Aukrust I, Houge G, Bend R, Warren H, Stevenson RE, Stuurman KE, Barkovich AJ, Sherr EH. De novo variants in SUPT16H cause neurodevelopmental disorders associated with corpus callosum abnormalities. J Med Genet. 2020 Jul;57(7):461-465. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106193. Epub 2020 Jan 10. — View Citation

Boland E, Clayton-Smith J, Woo VG, McKee S, Manson FD, Medne L, Zackai E, Swanson EA, Fitzpatrick D, Millen KJ, Sherr EH, Dobyns WB, Black GC. Mapping of deletion and translocation breakpoints in 1q44 implicates the serine/threonine kinase AKT3 in postnat — View Citation

Edwards TJ, Sherr EH, Barkovich AJ, Richards LJ. Clinical, genetic and imaging findings identify new causes for corpus callosum development syndromes. Brain. 2014 Jun;137(Pt 6):1579-613. doi: 10.1093/brain/awt358. Epub 2014 Jan 28. — View Citation

Fregeau B, Kim BJ, Hernandez-Garcia A, Jordan VK, Cho MT, Schnur RE, Monaghan KG, Juusola J, Rosenfeld JA, Bhoj E, Zackai EH, Sacharow S, Baranano K, Bosch DGM, de Vries BBA, Lindstrom K, Schroeder A, James P, Kulch P, Lalani SR, van Haelst MM, van Gassen KLI, van Binsbergen E, Barkovich AJ, Scott DA, Sherr EH. De Novo Mutations of RERE Cause a Genetic Syndrome with Features that Overlap Those Associated with Proximal 1p36 Deletions. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 May 5;98(5):963-970. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.03.002. Epub 2016 Apr 14. — View Citation

Glass HC, Shaw GM, Ma C, Sherr EH. Agenesis of the corpus callosum in California 1983-2003: a population-based study. Am J Med Genet A. 2008 Oct 1;146A(19):2495-500. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32418. — View Citation

Hetts SW, Sherr EH, Chao S, Gobuty S, Barkovich AJ. Anomalies of the corpus callosum: an MR analysis of the phenotypic spectrum of associated malformations. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2006 Nov;187(5):1343-8. doi: 10.2214/AJR.05.0146. — View Citation

Johnson-Kerner B, Snijders Blok L, Suit L, Thomas J, Kleefstra T, Sherr EH. DDX3X-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder. 2020 Aug 27. In: Adam MP, Mirzaa GM, Pagon RA, Wallace SE, Bean LJH, Gripp KW, Amemiya A, editors. GeneReviews(R) [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2023. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK561282/ — View Citation

Lau YC, Hinkley LB, Bukshpun P, Strominger ZA, Wakahiro ML, Baron-Cohen S, Allison C, Auyeung B, Jeremy RJ, Nagarajan SS, Sherr EH, Marco EJ. Autism traits in individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum. J Autism Dev Disord. 2013 May;43(5):1106-18. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1653-2. — View Citation

Li J, Shivakumar S, Wakahiro M, Mukherjee P, Barkovich AJ, Slavotinek A, Sherr EH. Agenesis of the corpus callosum, optic coloboma, intractable seizures, craniofacial and skeletal dysmorphisms: an autosomal recessive disorder similar to Temtamy syndrome. — View Citation

Nakata Y, Barkovich AJ, Wahl M, Strominger Z, Jeremy RJ, Wakahiro M, Mukherjee P, Sherr EH. Diffusion abnormalities and reduced volume of the ventral cingulum bundle in agenesis of the corpus callosum: a 3T imaging study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2009 Jun;3 — View Citation

O'Driscoll MC, Black GC, Clayton-Smith J, Sherr EH, Dobyns WB. Identification of genomic loci contributing to agenesis of the corpus callosum. Am J Med Genet A. 2010 Sep;152A(9):2145-59. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33558. — View Citation

Owen JP, Li YO, Ziv E, Strominger Z, Gold J, Bukhpun P, Wakahiro M, Friedman EJ, Sherr EH, Mukherjee P. The structural connectome of the human brain in agenesis of the corpus callosum. Neuroimage. 2013 Apr 15;70:340-55. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.031. Epub 2012 Dec 23. — View Citation

Paul LK, Brown WS, Adolphs R, Tyszka JM, Richards LJ, Mukherjee P, Sherr EH. Agenesis of the corpus callosum: genetic, developmental and functional aspects of connectivity. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2007 Apr;8(4):287-99. doi: 10.1038/nrn2107. — View Citation

Sherr EH, Owen R, Albertson DG, Pinkel D, Cotter PD, Slavotinek AM, Hetts SW, Jeremy RJ, Schilmoeller G, Schilmoeller K, Wakahiro M, Barkovich AJ. Genomic microarray analysis identifies candidate loci in patients with corpus callosum anomalies. Neurology. — View Citation

Tang PH, Bartha AI, Norton ME, Barkovich AJ, Sherr EH, Glenn OA. Agenesis of the corpus callosum: an MR imaging analysis of associated abnormalities in the fetus. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2009 Feb;30(2):257-63. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1331. Epub 2008 Nov 6. — View Citation

Travaglini L, Brancati F, Attie-Bitach T, Audollent S, Bertini E, Kaplan J, Perrault I, Iannicelli M, Mancuso B, Rigoli L, Rozet JM, Swistun D, Tolentino J, Dallapiccola B, Gleeson JG, Valente EM; International JSRD Study Group; Zankl A, Leventer R, Grattan-Smith P, Janecke A, D'Hooghe M, Sznajer Y, Van Coster R, Demerleir L, Dias K, Moco C, Moreira A, Kim CA, Maegawa G, Petkovic D, Abdel-Salam GM, Abdel-Aleem A, Zaki MS, Marti I, Quijano-Roy S, Sigaudy S, de Lonlay P, Romano S, Touraine R, Koenig M, Lagier-Tourenne C, Messer J, Collignon P, Wolf N, Philippi H, Kitsiou Tzeli S, Halldorsson S, Johannsdottir J, Ludvigsson P, Phadke SR, Udani V, Stuart B, Magee A, Lev D, Michelson M, Ben-Zeev B, Fischetto R, Benedicenti F, Stanzial F, Borgatti R, Accorsi P, Battaglia S, Fazzi E, Giordano L, Pinelli L, Boccone L, Bigoni S, Ferlini A, Donati MA, Caridi G, Divizia MT, Faravelli F, Ghiggeri G, Pessagno A, Briguglio M, Briuglia S, Salpietro CD, Tortorella G, Adami A, Castorina P, Lalatta F, Marra G, Riva D, Scelsa B, Spaccini L, Uziel G, Del Giudice E, Laverda AM, Ludwig K, Permunian A, Suppiej A, Signorini S, Uggetti C, Battini R, Di Giacomo M, Cilio MR, Di Sabato ML, Leuzzi V, Parisi P, Pollazzon M, Silengo M, De Vescovi R, Greco D, Romano C, Cazzagon M, Simonati A, Al-Tawari AA, Bastaki L, Megarbane A, Sabolic Avramovska V, de Jong MM, Stromme P, Koul R, Rajab A, Azam M, Barbot C, Martorell Sampol L, Rodriguez B, Pascual-Castroviejo I, Teber S, Anlar B, Comu S, Karaca E, Kayserili H, Yuksel A, Akcakus M, Al Gazali L, Sztriha L, Nicholl D, Woods CG, Bennett C, Hurst J, Sheridan E, Barnicoat A, Hennekam R, Lees M, Blair E, Bernes S, Sanchez H, Clark AE, DeMarco E, Donahue C, Sherr E, Hahn J, Sanger TD, Gallager TE, Dobyns WB, Daugherty C, Krishnamoorthy KS, Sarco D, Walsh CA, McKanna T, Milisa J, Chung WK, De Vivo DC, Raynes H, Schubert R, Seward A, Brooks DG, Goldstein A, Caldwell J, Finsecke E, Maria BL, Holden K, Cruse RP, Swoboda KJ, Viskochil D. Expanding CEP290 mutational spectrum in ciliopathies. Am J Med Genet A. 2009 Oct;149A(10):2173-80. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33025. — View Citation

Wahl M, Li YO, Ng J, Lahue SC, Cooper SR, Sherr EH, Mukherjee P. Microstructural correlations of white matter tracts in the human brain. Neuroimage. 2010 Jun;51(2):531-41. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.02.072. Epub 2010 Mar 4. — View Citation

Wahl M, Strominger Z, Jeremy RJ, Barkovich AJ, Wakahiro M, Sherr EH, Mukherjee P. Variability of homotopic and heterotopic callosal connectivity in partial agenesis of the corpus callosum: a 3T diffusion tensor imaging and Q-ball tractography study. AJNR — View Citation

Wahl M, Strominger ZA, Wakahiro M, Jeremy RJ, Mukherjee P, Sherr EH. Diffusion tensor imaging of Aicardi syndrome. Pediatr Neurol. 2010 Aug;43(2):87-91. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.03.005. — View Citation

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External Links

•   Click here for more information about this study: Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum, Genetics and Clinical features
•   National Organization of the Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (a non-profit corporation)
•   UCSF Clinical Trials