Researchers launch major study to track rare brain disease over time
NCT ID NCT03639285
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study follows up to 600 people with leukodystrophy, a rare genetic disorder affecting the brain's white matter. Researchers aim to track how the disease progresses, improve diagnosis through genetic testing and brain scans, and evaluate outcomes like hospitalizations and response to treatments such as bone marrow transplant. No new drug or therapy is being tested; instead, the goal is to gather knowledge to better care for patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 600 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2007
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2050
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Any person with an apparent inherited disease of white matter (except as excluded by the exclusion criteria).
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * evidence by clinical exam, radiological findings, and/or testing, of an inherited leukodystrophy. * be able to travel to the leukodystrophy clinic (at Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah); * be able to tolerate a general physical exam, and a neurological exam. Exclusion Criteria: * unable to be evaluated at the University of Utah Hospital or Primary Children's Hospital; * refusal to sign study consent form; * evidence or finding of another non-genetic cause of their condition; * Persons with known white matter disease or lesions related to: birth injury or prenatal injury, multiple sclerosis, trauma, infection, immunization, or post-infectious effects (e.g. ADEM- acute disseminated encephalomyelitis), metabolic disturbance (e.g. Central pontine myelinolysis), neoplasms, primary rheumatologic diseases (e.g. Systemic lupus erythematosis), stroke, hypoxic-ischemic injury, drug or toxin effect, seizures, or endocrine disturbance.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Primary Children's Hospital
RECRUITINGSalt Lake City, Utah, 84113, United States
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