Understanding Acute Infection in Mitochondrial Disease

This study aims to understand how infections affect people with mitochondrial disease, a condition that can cause poor growth and muscle weakness. Researchers will study the immune responses and genetic makeup of people with mitochondrial disease when they get sick. They will compare this information to their healthy family members to learn how genes influence the disease and identify ways to improve care. The goal is to find specific immune patterns that could help doctors better treat infections in people with mitochondrial disease. You may be eligible if you are at least two months old and have a doctor-diagnosed mitochondrial disease.

Study design
This is an observational study, meaning no interventions are given. It plans to enroll 400 participants, including individuals with mitochondrial disease and their household/family members.
What's involved
Not specified in the trial record.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Not specified.

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NCT04419870

Acute Infection in Mitochondrial Disease: Metabolism, Infection and Immunity

Recruiting
Not specifiedAges 2+Observational
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
~400 participants
Updated 2026-09-10 on ClinicalTrials.gov

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
We will perform whole blood transcriptomic analysis, humoral response profiling and soluble mediator profiling.
Measured over Undefined for natural history study
Mitochondrial Disease

NCT04419870

Where you'd take part

This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

    Bethesda, Marylandstudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

  • Eliza M Gordon-Lipkin, M.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

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  • We will perform whole blood transcriptomic analysis, humoral response profiling and soluble mediator profiling.Undefined for natural history study

    To identify immune signatures that associate with host responses to disease that would allow improved patient stratification and identification of potential therapeutic targets to mitigate the severe symptoms and sequelae of infection in mitochondrial disease.