Genomics, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), and Clinical Neonatology

Completed

Conditions studied: Lung Disease, Brain Injury, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Respiratory Failure

In brief

This research seeks to establish a neonatal DNA Tissue Bank to find out if differences in small segments of DNA predispose babies to Chronic Lung Disease (CLD), Periventricular Brain Injury (PVI), Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC), or Hypoxic Respiratory Failure (HRF).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00315263

Run by

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

People needed

63

Starts

2006-04-01

Expected to finish

2011-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-08-26

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Less than 34 weeks gestation and less than 1500 g at birth
• Greater than or equal to 36 weeks gestation and either with hypoxic respiratory failure or with mild respiratory distress never requiring assisted ventilation

You may not qualify if…

• Life threatening anomalies of any organ system (e.g., cardiac, thoracic, lethal, or non-lethal chromosomal abnormalities)

Where it is running

• Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics — Kansas City, Missouri, United States
• Truman Medical Center — Kansas City, Missouri, United States

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