Diagnostic and Screening Study of Genetic Disorders

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the phenotypic heterogeneity of patients with genetic disorders including their clinical spectrum and natural history.

II. Develop and evaluate novel methods for the treatment of genetic disorders including metabolic manipulation, enzyme manipulation, enzyme replacement, enzyme transplantation, and gene transfer techniques in these patients.

III. Develop and evaluate methods for the prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders using improved cytogenetic, biochemical, and nucleic acid techniques and amniotic fluid cells or chorionic villi in these patients.

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Conditions

Tay-Sachs Disease Brain Diseases Brain Diseases, Metabolic Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn Central Nervous System Diseases Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities Demyelinating Diseases Gangliosidoses Gangliosidoses, GM2 Genetic Diseases, Inborn Hereditary Central Nervous System Demyelinating Diseases Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell Leukoencephalopathies Lipid Metabolism Disorders Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors Lipidoses Lysosomal Storage Diseases Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System Metabolic Diseases Metabolism, Inborn Errors Nervous System Diseases Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Porphyria, Erythropoietic Porphyrias Skin Diseases Skin Diseases, Genetic Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases Sphingolipidoses

Age range

0 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York, 10029, United States

About this study

PROTOCOL OUTLINE:

Patients are evaluated annually or biannually, depending on disease status and progression. Patients undergo a complete medical history, an extensive family pedigree, and a physical examination. Patients undergo general laboratory, imaging, physiologic, and clinical laboratory studies according to their disease type. Patients undergo specialized laboratory studies including plasma and leukocyte enzyme assays, quantitative urinary mucopolysaccharides and oligosaccharides, urine and plasma glycolipids, plasma and urine amino acids, urine organic acids, lymphoblastoid culture, DNA isolation from peripheral leukocytes, skin biopsy for fibroblast culture (if indicated), and medical photography. Patients also receive consultations with various specialties including ophthalmology, ENT, cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology/nutrition, hematology, neurology, orthopedics, rehabilitation medicine/physical therapy, and dermatology.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Suspected diagnosis (homozygous or heterozygous) of a genetic disorder including, but not limited to, one of the following: Tay-Sachs disease (adult form) Congenital erythropoietic porphyria Galactosemia Mitochondrial myopathy Globoid cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease) Methylmalonic acidemia Isovaleric acidemia Morquio type A Glycogen storage disease type 1AB Ornithine aminotransferase deficiency Ceroid lipofuscinosis Glutaric aciduria type 1 Citrullinemia Other malformation syndromes, lysosomal storage disorders, or peroxisomal disorders

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)

Nih

Collaborators

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 1999
First posted: Jul 6, 2000
Registry last updated: Jun 24, 2005

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