A Prospective Study in Creatine Transporter Deficiency (SLC6A8) Patients to Determine the Most Relevant Outcome Measures

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Creatine transport deficiency (CTD) is a rare genetic disorder related to pathogenic variants in the SLC6A8 gene, located on chromosome Xq28. Clinical diagnosis of CTD is based on clinical presentation, an increased urinary creatine/creatinine ratio and a severe decreased creatine peak on 1H-MRS magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A retrospective study with questionnaires identified that most CTD patients had moderate to severe intellectual disability. Less than one third of patients were able to speak in sentences. Seizures were present in 59% of the patients. 41% had autistic features. Motor dysfunction was mentioned in 58%, and gastrointestinal symptoms were reported in 35% of the patients. Several new therapeutic avenues are currently emerging in this disease for which no treatment has been available until now : cyclocreatine (interesting but unfortunately with very little clinical applicability due to its toxicity; dodecyl creatine ester incorporated into lipid nanocapsules with intranasal administration; pharmaco-chaperoning (for the folding-deficient creatine transporter variants, Ultragenyx pharmaceuticals new prodrug designed to deliver creatine to the brain (UX068). These new pharmacological treatment options may offer future opportunities to improve cognition in CTD patients. A key issue is to determine outcome measures that are accessible to these patients, despite the importance of their cognitive deficit. In a preliminary study (on 31 CTD patients), investigators showed for example, that 75% of patients were unable to perform a Wechsler scale, which is one of the most used neuropsychological test to determine patient IQ (intelligence quotient). Most of the existing cognitive tests were developed to distinguish typically developing persons and ID (intellectual disability) patients, leading to a floor effect in the latter who systematically fail these tests. Therefore, these tests are not adapted to capture the potential effect of a drug in ID patient group. The identification of reliable and sensitive outcome measures for use in clinical trials in ID patients was recognized as a priority in a meeting convened by the NIH. N-of-1 trials (also called Single-Case Experimental Designs or SCEDs) appear of great interest for rare diseases, statistical power coming from the number of repeated measures, which leads to choose outcome measures that can be repeated multiple times. This innovative study will allow to efficiently preparing future therapeutic trials, by specifying the phenotype of the patients, and by determining the most adapted outcome measures taking into account their cognitive deficiency and the type of experimental design to be used in the context of rare diseases.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 2
Maximum Age: 60
Healthy Volunteers: t
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⁃ Male CTD patients (n=24)

• Male CTD patients having a confirmed mutation in the SLC6A8 gene,

• Aged \> 5 to \< 35 years

• Whose maternal language is French,

• Having signed the informed consent and/or for whom parents/legal guardian have signed the informed consent,

• Affiliated to national Health Insurance system or parents/legal guardian affiliated to national health insurance system.

⁃ Female CTD patients (n=15)

• Female CTD patients having a confirmed mutation in the SLC6A8 gene,

• Aged \> 5 to \< 60 years,

• Whose maternal language is French,

• Having signed the informed consent and/or for whom parents/legal guardian have signed the informed consent.

• Affiliated to national Health Insurance system (sécurité sociale) or parents/legal guardian affiliated to national health insurance system

⁃ Sex- and chronological age-matched controls (n=24)

• Male

• Aged \> 5 to \< 35 years

• Whose maternal language is French,

• Having signed the informed consent and/or for whom parents/legal guardian have signed the informed consent,

• Affiliated to national health insurance system or parents/legal guardian affiliated to national health insurance system.

⁃ Sex- and chronological age-matched female controls (n=15)

• female,

• Aged \> 5 to \< 60 years,

• Whose maternal language is French,

• Having signed the informed consent and/or for whom parents/legal guardian have signed the informed consent

• Affiliated to national Health Insurance system (sécurité sociale) or parents/legal guardian affiliated to national health insurance system

⁃ Sex- and mental age-matched controls (n=39)

• Male and female

• Aged \> 2 to \< 8 years

• Whose maternal language is French,

• For whom parents/legal guardian have signed the informed consent,

• Affiliated to national health insurance system or parents/legal guardian affiliated to national health insurance system.

⁃ Typically developed children (n=80)

• Male and female

• Aged \> 2 to \< 8 years

• Whose maternal language is French,

• For whom parents/legal guardian have signed the informed consent,

• Affiliated to national health insurance system or parents/legal guardian affiliated to national health insurance system.

Locations
Other Locations
France
Woman, mother and child hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon
RECRUITING
Bron
Contact Information
Primary
Aurore CURIE, MD,PhD
aurore.curie@chu-lyon.fr
06 70 62 69 76
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-03-13
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-13
Participants
Target number of participants: 197
Treatments
Other: CTD male patients
Case group 24 male CTD patients having a confirmed mutation in the SLC6A8 gene, aged \> 5 to \< 35 years.
Other: Sex and chronological age matched male controls
Control group 24 male, sex and chronological age matched controls, aged \> 5 to \< 35 years
Other: Sex and mental age matched male controls
Control group 24 male, sex and mental age matched controls, aged \> 2 to \< 8 years
Other: Typically developed children
Control group 80 typically developed children aged \> 2 to \< 8 years, which corresponds to the mental age of CTD patients.~40 children aged \> 2 to \< 5 years, and 40 children aged \> 6 to \< 8 years will perform the newly developed outcome measures.
Other: CTD female patients
15 female CTD patients having a confirmed mutation in the SLC6A8 gene, aged \>5 to \< 60 years
Other: Sex and mental age matched female controls
Control group 15 female, sex and mental age matched controls, aged \> 2 to \< 8 years
Other: Sex and chronological age matched female controls
Control group 15 female, sex and chronological age matched controls, aged \> 5 to \< 60 years
Sponsors
Leads: Hospices Civils de Lyon

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