genetic disease heritable disorder
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients suffering from diseases of genetic or non-genetic origin, including but not limited to cardiovascular, neural and blood disorders. Related or unrelated healthy individuals will serve as controls. In principle patients of all ages are eligible, as some forms of hereditary disease already affect patients at young age and may potentially even be fatal at that age.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients tested as HIV or hepatitis positive.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Main study parameters/endpoints: - Ability to generate iPSCs and differentiated derivative cells from patients* somatic cells - Ability to investigate the phenotype associated with the disease-specific cells - Ability to (genetically) repair the underlying cause of the disease - Ability to generate lineage reporter hiPSC lines - Ability to ameliorate disease phenotype using small molecules, drugs or si/shRNA | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Ability to screen for new compounds/ development of new drugs. | — |
Countries
Netherlands