Biobanking of Rett Syndrome and Related Disorders

Rett Syndrome Clinical Trial

Official title:

Biobanking of Rett Syndrome and Related Disorders Protocol

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02705677
• Other study ID #: RDCRN # 5213
• Secondary ID: U54HD061222
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The overarching purpose of this study is to advance understanding of the natural history of Rett syndrome (RTT), MECP2-duplication disorder (MECP2 Dup), RTT-related disorders including CDKL5, FOXG1, and individuals with MECP2 mutations who do not have RTT. Although all these disorders are the result of specific genetic changes, there remains broad clinical variation that is not entirely accounted for by known biological factors. Additionally, clinical investigators currently do not have any biomarkers of disease status, clinical severity, or responsiveness to therapeutic intervention. To address these issues, biological materials (DNA, RNA, plasma, cell lines) will be collected from affected individuals and in some cases from unaffected family members, initial evaluation performed to identify additional biological factors contributing to disease severity, and these materials will be stored for future characterization.

Description:

At the present time, effective treatments for RTT, MECP2 Dup, or Rett-related disorders are lacking. Investigators have made substantial progress in RTT over the past eleven years such that this study represents a narrowing of focus to mutations or duplications of the MECP2 gene and related disorders, including those with phenotypic overlap. Understanding of RTT has advanced remarkably well through the Rett Syndrome Natural History Clinical Protocol (NHS) and correspondingly advancement in the basic science realm has moved forward with equivalent success. Thus, progress in clinical and basic science has led to the establishment of clinical trials and other translational studies that hold promise for additional clinical trials in future. In the process, however, investigators became aware of additional MECP2- and RTT-related disorders that were unknown at the time the original proposal was conceived and further were impressed by the substantial clinical variability in individuals with RTT that cannot be explained by differences in mutations alone. In fact, variability among individuals with identical mutations has led investigators to search for additional explanations. At the time of the initial application (2002), just three years after the identification of the gene, MECP2, as the molecular link to RTT, investigators were not aware of the variation in clinical disorders related to MECP2 mutations or to the related but quite different MECP2 Dup. Each disorder is characterized by significant neurodevelopmental features related either to alterations in the MECP2 gene or related to phenotypes closely resembling those seen in individuals with RTT. Further, the phenotypic overlap with RTT due to mutations in CDKL5 and FOXG1 was also unexplored. The investigators propose in this new study to build on the substantial progress made in understanding both classic and variant RTT and to add these related disorders, MECP2 Dup and the Rett-related disorders including CDKL5, FOXG1, and individuals with MECP2 mutations who do not have RTT. In conjunction with the longitudinal clinical assessment performed via the natural history component, investigators will systematically collect from all willing participant's blood and isolate plasma, DNA, and RNA. All participants in the Natural History Study will be asked to contribute samples at the initial visit, whereas samples will be collected repeatedly on a subset of participants in order to look for changes over time. In order to identify factors that distinguish between affected and unaffected individuals, as well as to have the potential to characterize the heritability and potential consequences of genetic changes in families, samples will be collected from unaffected family members. Additionally, on a subset of individuals chosen because of unique clinical features skin biopsies and/or hair follicles will be collected to establish cell lines. Investigators will ask all individuals providing samples to agree to potential future whole-genome sequencing in order to be able to potentially evaluate for genetic modifiers of these diseases. These materials will be stored at a central repository (Greenwood Genetics Laboratory). The main purpose of these samples is to serve as durable materials for future analyses, however, a set of defined analyses will be performed on all samples. For the samples collected in the Rett syndrome cohort, investigators will perform X-chromosome inactivation studies and evaluate common polymorphisms in Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and determine the contribution of these known factors to disease severity. For MECP2 Dup cohort investigators will characterize inflammatory markers in the plasma and correlate these with clinical features. Also for MECP2 Dup cohort investigators will perform detailed genomic breakpoint and gene content analysis and correlate this with disease severity. Similar analysis of genomic breakpoints and gene content will be performed on people with FOXG1 Duplications. Finally, in a pilot study, investigators will perform metabolic profiling on people from all disorders and evaluate for metabolic features correlated with disease severity, and metabolic features common or unique between these disorders. This work will provide a durable resource for future analysis, extend understanding of genotype/phenotype correlations, identify other biological factors contributing to disease severity, as well as provide the framework for the development of biomarkers of disease state and severity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 752
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals of both genders and of all ages, with RTT, MECP2 Dup, and, RTT-related disorders including those with mutations or deletions in CDKL5 and FOXG1 genes, or those with RTT (atypical or typical) who are mutation negative. Additionally, unaffected family members of those people who meet the disease specific criteria stated will eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals who do not meet the above criteria will be excluded.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• CDKL5
• FOXG1 Disorders
• MECP2 Duplication
• Rett Syndrome
• Syndrome

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Alabama
United States	Children's Hospital Boston	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Rush University Medical Center	Chicago	Illinois
United States	University of Colorado Denver	Denver	Colorado
United States	Greenwood Genetic Center	Greenwood	South Carolina
United States	Baylor College of Medicine	Houston	Texas
United States	Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare	Minneapolis	Minnesota
United States	Vanderbilt University	Nashville	Tennessee
United States	UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland	Oakland	California
United States	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	University of California San Diego	San Diego	California

Sponsors (6)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Rare Diseases (ORD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	X-chromosome inactivation in Rett syndrome (RTT)	Characterize X-chromosome inactivation in RTT and correlate with clinical severity.	5 years
Primary	Bdnf polymorphisms in RTT	Characterize Bdnf polymorphisms in RTT and correlate with clinical severity.	5 years
Primary	Inflammation markers in MECP2 duplication syndrome	Evaluate inflammation markers in MECP2 duplication syndrome and correlate with disease severity.	5 years
Primary	Biobanking of blood for Rett syndrome (RTT), MECP2 duplication syndrome, FOXG1, CDKL5, and MECP2 mutations not producing RTT	Blood will be collected and stored from participants with RTT, MECP2 duplication, FOXG1, CDKL5, and MECP2 mutations without RTT to analyze factors noted in Outcomes 1-3 and in secondary outcome 5 to correlate with disease severity.	5 years
Secondary	Breakpoints and gene content of MECP2 and FOXG1 duplications	Characterize breakpoints and gene content of MECP2 and FOXG1 duplications and correlate with disease severity	5 years

External Links

•   International Rett Syndrome Foundation website