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Study NCT ID: NCT06594367
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Last Update Posted: None
First Post: 2024-09-02

Brief Title: A Possible Founding PKD2 Mutation Associated with Variable Phenotypes of ADPKD in Bergamo Province
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Study Overview

Official Title: A Possible Founding PKD2 Mutation Associated with Variable Phenotypes of ADPKD in Bergamo Province
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-09
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
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Acronym: POPULAR
Brief Summary: This is an observational study aimed at assessing if a new and specific heterozygous deletion detected at PKD2 gene is associated to a founder effect in 10 Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ADPKD patients and at investigating the genotype-phenotype correlation in the families sharing the same PKD2 breakpoint site
Detailed Description: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ADPKD is the most common inherited disease of the kidney It occurs in adulthood but is also rarely diagnosed in early childhood The majority of the disease-causing variants observed in ADPKD patients are located in two genes PKD1 and PKD2 They account for 78 and 13 of ADPKD cases respectively while in approximately 6-9 of clinically diagnosed patients other genes have been shown to contribute to the disease

Most ADPKD mutations are private and so far no hot-spot mutations have been reported in PKD1 and PKD2 On average renal survival of patients with PKD2 mutations is 20 years longer than in patients with PKD1 mutations However there is a high degree of clinical variability among patients as well as within families with different rates of progression towards end-stage renal disease ESRD partially driven by genetic factors

Few reports are available about possible founding mutations in ADPKD We have recently reported the results of genetic analysis for PKD1 and PKD2 by Sanger sequencing and Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification MLPA in a large Italian cohort of ADPKD patients who were referred to our center for genetic analysis through the Italian National Health Service

MLPA is a method for detecting copy number variation CNV of a specific DNA segment within the genome suggestive of duplications deletions or other structural variants that may affect long DNA stretches The exact characterization of the extent of the structural variant identified by MLPA however requires subsequent analyses

In 4 families 6 patients who were negative at Sanger sequencing MLPA analysis of PKD2 revealed a novel heterozygous copy number variation CNV indicative of a deletion of at least 11000 base pairs bp and spanning exons 1-2 These families are formally not related but they live in the same geographical area including three small villages in Bergamo province Torre de Roveri Albano S Alessandro Scanzorosciate suggesting a potential founder effect More recently we detected the same PKD2 CNV in 3 additional families 4 patients from the same geographical area further strengthening this hypothesis Most affected subjects in these families have mild disease as expected for PKD2 mutations but one patient experienced early ESRD and another one presents congenital anomalies of the kidney and the urinary tract CAKUT in addition to the typical ADPKD phenotype indicating a different expressivity of the disease or the possible presence of other genetic factors affecting the clinical phenotype

Further in depth analyses were needed to investigate the deletion of at least 11000 base pairs bp and spanning exons 1-2 to find the breakpoint site in the 10 patients for diagnostic purpose We found the same breakpoint sites across all the patients pointing to a common origin and similar disease expressivity

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