Clinical Trial: Genetic and Clinical Study of Patients With Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Cockayne Syndrome, or Trichothiodystrophy

Purpose

MedlinePlus related topics:  Eye Cancer;   Head and Neck Cancer;   Melanoma;   Skin Cancer
Genetics Home Reference related topics:  retinoblastoma

Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Natural History

Official Title: Examination of Clinical and Laboratory Abnormalities in Patients With Defective DNA Repair: Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Cockayne Syndrome, or Trichothiodystrophy

Study start: June 2000

Eligibility

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Publications

Bohr VA, Sander M, Kraemer KH. Rare diseases provide rare insights into DNA repair pathways, TFIIH, aging and cancer center. DNA Repair (Amst). 2005 Feb 3;4(2):293-302.

Terunuma A, Ye J, Emmert S, Khan SG, Kraemer KH, Vogel JC. Ultraviolet light selection assay to optimize oligonucleotide correction of mutations in endogenous xeroderma pigmentosum genes. Gene Ther. 2004 Dec;11(23):1729-34.

Khan SG, Muniz-Medina V, Shahlavi T, Baker CC, Inui H, Ueda T, Emmert S, Schneider TD, Kraemer KH. The human XPC DNA repair gene: arrangement, splice site information content and influence of a single nucleotide polymorphism in a splice acceptor site on alternative splicing and function. Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Aug 15;30(16):3624-31.

Suzuki H, Kalair W, Shivji GM, Wang B, Toto P, Amerio P, Kraemer KH, Sauder DN. Impaired ultraviolet-B-induced cytokine induction in xeroderma pigmentosum fibroblasts. J Invest Dermatol. 2001 Nov;117(5):1151-5.

Publications that report results of this study

Khan SG, Oh KS, Shahlavi T, Ueda T, Busch DB, Inui H, Emmert S, Imoto K, Muniz-Medina V, Baker CC, DiGiovanna JJ, Schmidt D, Khadavi A, Metin A, Gozukara E, Slor H, Sarasin A, Kraemer KH. Reduced XPC DNA repair gene mRNA levels in clinically normal parents of xeroderma pigmentosum patients. Carcinogenesis. 2006 Jan;27(1):84-94. Epub 2005 Aug 4.

Liang C, Kraemer KH, Morris A, Schiffmann R, Price VH, Menefee E, DiGiovanna JJ. Characterization of tiger-tail banding and hair shaft abnormalities in trichothiodystrophy. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005 Feb;52(2):224-32.

Khan SG, Metin A, Gozukara E, Inui H, Shahlavi T, Muniz-Medina V, Baker CC, Ueda T, Aiken JR, Schneider TD, Kraemer KH. Two essential splice lariat branchpoint sequences in one intron in a xeroderma pigmentosum DNA repair gene: mutations result in reduced XPC mRNA levels that correlate with cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet. 2004 Feb 1;13(3):343-52. Epub 2003 Dec 8.

Emmert S, Slor H, Busch DB, Batko S, Albert RB, Coleman D, Khan SG, Abu-Libdeh B, DiGiovanna JJ, Cunningham BB, Lee MM, Crollick J, Inui H, Ueda T, Hedayati M, Grossman L, Shahlavi T, Cleaver JE, Kraemer KH. Relationship of neurologic degeneration to genotype in three xeroderma pigmentosum group G patients. J Invest Dermatol. 2002 Jun;118(6):972-82. Erratum in: J Invest Dermatol. 2003 Jan;120(1):173.

Yavuz S, Yavuz AS, Kraemer KH, Lipsky PE. The role of polymerase eta in somatic hypermutation determined by analysis of mutations in a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum variant. J Immunol. 2002 Oct 1;169(7):3825-30.

Broughton BC, Berneburg M, Fawcett H, Taylor EM, Arlett CF, Nardo T, Stefanini M, Menefee E, Price VH, Queille S, Sarasin A, Bohnert E, Krutmann J, Davidson R, Kraemer KH, Lehmann AR. Two individuals with features of both xeroderma pigmentosum and trichothiodystrophy highlight the complexity of the clinical outcomes of mutations in the XPD gene. Hum Mol Genet. 2001 Oct 15;10(22):2539-47.

Gozukara EM, Khan SG, Metin A, Emmert S, Busch DB, Shahlavi T, Coleman DM, Miller M, Chinsomboon N, Stefanini M, Kraemer KH. A stop codon in xeroderma pigmentosum group C families in Turkey and Italy: molecular genetic evidence for a common ancestor. J Invest Dermatol. 2001 Aug;117(2):197-204.

Lindenbaum Y, Dickson D, Rosenbaum P, Kraemer K, Robbins I, Rapin I. Xeroderma pigmentosum/cockayne syndrome complex: first neuropathological study and review of eight other cases. Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2001;5(6):225-42. Review.

Zeng X, Winter DB, Kasmer C, Kraemer KH, Lehmann AR, Gearhart PJ. DNA polymerase eta is an A-T mutator in somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin variable genes. Nat Immunol. 2001 Jun;2(6):537-41.

Slor H, Batko S, Khan SG, Sobe T, Emmert S, Khadavi A, Frumkin A, Busch DB, Albert RB, Kraemer KH. Clinical, cellular, and molecular features of an Israeli xeroderma pigmentosum family with a frameshift mutation in the XPC gene: sun protection prolongs life. J Invest Dermatol. 2000 Dec;115(6):974-80.