A Natural History Study Seeks to Understand the Clinical, Genomic, Pharmacological, Laboratory, and Dietary Determinates of Pyrimidine and Purine Metabolism Disorders

Metabolic Disease Clinical Trial

Official title: Prospective Study of the Clinical, Genomic, Pharmacological, Laboratory, and Dietary Determinates of Pyrimidine and Purine Metabolism Disorders

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

Pyrimidine and purine metabolism disorders (DPPMs) affect how the body metabolizes chemicals called pyrimidines and purines. DPPMs can cause dysfunctions throughout the body, especially in the brain, blood, kidneys, and immune system. People with DPPMs might have no symptoms, mild symptoms, or they may have severe, chronic symptoms, that can be fatal. DPPMs are not well understood, and researchers want to learn more about what causes them and how to treat them.

Objective:

To learn more about factors that affect DPPMs by comparing test results from affected, uaffected family members, and healthy people.

Eligibility:

Three types of participants are needed: people aged 1 month and older with DPPMs; their family members who do not have DPPMs; and healthy volunteers.

Design:

Participants with DPPMs will come to the clinic once a year; some may be asked to come more often. At each visit, all affected participants will have a physical exam and give samples of blood, urine, saliva, and stool. Depending on their symptoms, they may also have other procedures, such as:

Swabs of their skin and inside the mouth.

Tests of their heart, kidney, brain, and nerve function.

Questionnaires about what they eat.

Dental exams, and exams of their hearing and vision.

Tests of their learning ability.

Monitoring of their physical activity.

Imaging scans.

Photographs of their face and body.

These tests may be spread over up to 7 days. Affected participants may remain in the study indefinitely if they wish to.

Healthy volunteers and family members will have 1 study visit. They will have a physical exam and may be asked to give blood, urine, saliva, and stool samples.

Clinical Trial Description

Study Description:

This study will explore the natural history and mechanisms of novel or known but incompletely characterized disorders of pyrimidine and purine metabolism (DPPMs). Eligible participants will be ascertained by identifying biochemical abnormalities in the levels of purines, pyrimidines and related compounds in body fluids, abnormal activity of enzymes, and/or identifying pathogenic variants in genes linked to purines and pyrimidine metabolism. We will collect participants DNA for genetic and genomic analyses, body fluids for biochemical analysis, blood and tissue samples for enzyme analysis, gastrointestinal samples for microbiome analysis. Some participants may undergo skin biopsy. Study subjects will be offered medical, laboratory, and imaging studies at the NIH Clinical Research Center consistent with the standards of care. Collected data will be analyzed to improve understanding of the natural history, develop statistical prediction models, identify and validate novel biomarkers.

Objectives:

Primary Objective: To describe features of novel and poorly characterized DPPMs.

Secondary Objectives: To identify genomic, clinical, pharmacological, laboratory, and dietary factors associated with variable outcomes in subjects affected by DPPMs.

Endpoints:

Primary Endpoint: Identify genomic variants, laboratory parameters, image findings, microbiome variables, nutritional and medication history of DPPMs.

Secondary Endpoints: Identify disease parameters associated with variable clinical outcomes (e.g., frequency of hospitalizations, survival, quality of life, function). ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anemia, Hemolytic
• Brain Diseases
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
• Epilepsy
• Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy
• Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
• Metabolic Disease
• Metabolic Diseases
• Nerve Compression Syndromes
• Paraplegia
• Retinitis
• Retinitis Pigmentosa
• Syndrome
• Tooth Diseases

• NCT number: NCT06092346
• Study type: Observational
• Source: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
• Contact: Oleg A Shchelochkov, M.D.
• Phone: (301) 435-2944
• Email: PurineandPyrimidine@mail.nih.gov
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: December 19, 2023
• Completion date: January 1, 2099