Clinical Trial: Genome-wide Study for Disease Susceptibility Gene(s) in Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Genome-wide Study for Disease Susceptibility Gene(s) in Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis
Brief Summary:
This is a case-control study involving one medical center and one research institute to develop a data-set containing a minimum of 100 osteoarthritis cases, minimum of 100 independent controls of similar gender ratio and a minimum of 100 disease controls (cases with hip and/or knee OA) to associate DNA sequence (allelic) variations in candidate genes with osteoarthritis phenotypes.
This study is intended to begin at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Academia Sinica (which includes National Genotyping Center (NGC) and National Clinical Core (NCC)), National Taiwan University Hospital.
Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Current Primary Outcome: Hand Osteoarthritis related gene expression assay [ Time Frame: 4 years ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome:
Original Secondary Outcome:
Information By: National Taiwan University Hospital
Dates:
Date Received: November 5, 2013
Date Started: February 2012
Date Completion: November 2016
Last Updated: November 5, 2013
Last Verified: November 2013