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Not yet recruitingNCT06679738Updated Nov 7, 2024

Genetic Variants Associated With the Risk of Gall Stones and Cirrhosis.

An observational study in Liver Cirrhosis and Gall Stone, sponsored by Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, India. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in India. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-11-07.

Sponsored by Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, India · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2025, 10 months ago, but the record still lists the study as not yet recruiting.
Study type
Observational
Model
Other
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
50
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Gall stone disease is more common in patients with cirrhosis. This association has been well established in different studies. Among the various factors which predispose a patient with gall stone disease to have associated liver cirrhosis, genetics also plays an important role.

This study aims to do a genetic panel-based analysis of genes which are involved in cholestasis to find any association between liver cirrhosis and gall stone disease.

Patients with history of gall stone or history of cholecystectomy done for gall stone disease will be evaluated for the presence of liver cirrhosis by fibroscan and ultrasonography. Those patients with cirrhosis and without cirrhosis will undergo a panel based genetic test for the common cholestasis genes and multivariate analysis will be done for variants associated with lithogenesis and cirrhosis.

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Study population:

  • Patients > 18 years of age.
  • Who have either gall stone disease or cirrhosis. Study design: All consecutive in-patients and out-patients requiring liver biopsy for evaluation of diffuse parenchymal liver disease will be evaluated for inclusion.

Study period: 1 year. Intervention: Blood sample from included patients will be subject to panel based NGS.

Monitoring and assessment: History of all patients including family history will be taken. Screening for cirrhosis will be done by fibroscan or ultrasound scanning. Gall stone diagnosis is made by USG. History about patients' parents, siblings, spouse, children will be taken with respect to gall stone and cirrhosis. NGS of cholecystitis will be send for the subject and the results will be collected as the fastQ file for analysis.

Statistical Analysis: MVA will be done to identify gene variants independently associated with lithogenesis and cirrhosis, along with demographic and environmental risk factors for these conditions. * From this data, overlapping risk-variants in common associated genes will be identified. A risk estimate (OR with 95% CI) will be calculated for each of the above identified genetic risk variant for the phenotype of cirrhosis with GS.

Adverse effects:

There are no adverse outcomes with respect to this study. Stopping rule of study: There are no stopping rules for the study.

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Conditions studied

  • Liver Cirrhosis
  • Gall Stone
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In context

Liver Cirrhosis

1,298 studies on the registry are indexed under Liver Cirrhosis; 338 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 171 across 526 observational studies indexed under Liver Cirrhosis.

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Lead sponsor

Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, India is the lead sponsor of 302 studies on the registry; 87 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

  • Patients > 18 years of age.
  • Who have either gall stone disease or cirrhosis.

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients > 18 years of age.
  2. Who has a GSD diagnosed by USG or have history of cholecystectomy for gall stone disease.
  3. Who is a diagnosed case of cirrhosis by Fibroscan or USG (Cirrhosis including alcohol related cirrhosis, , , Wilsons disease, Hemochromatosis are excluded.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients who have haemolytic anaemia
  2. Patients who do not consent for genetic study
  3. Patients who has a diagnosed cause for liver disease, including alcohol related cirrhosis, , , Wilsons disease, Hemochromatosis.
  4. Inability to provide .
  5. Cannot understand Hindi or English should be excluded since they will not be able to reply objectively to questionnaire.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

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Study design

Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No
Biospecimen retention
Samples with dna

Groups and cohorts

  • Cirrhosis with GSD

    Cirrhosis with GSD

  • No cirrhosis with no GSD

    No cirrhosis with no GSD

  • Cirrhosis with no GSD

    Cirrhosis with no GSD

  • GSD with no cirrhosis

    GSD with no cirrhosis

  • Cirrhosis with history of cholecystectomy for GSD

    Cirrhosis with history of cholecystectomy for GSD

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Identification of genetic risk-variants associated with both GS and modulation of liver cirrhosis in patients with cirrhosis.

    Time frame: Day 0

Secondary outcomes

  1. Identification of genetic polymorphisms in bile-acid metabolism and enterohepatic circulation, associated with increased GS risk in patients with cirrhosis.

    Time frame: Day 0

  2. Identification of genetic polymorphisms in cholesterol metabolism pathway, associated with increased GS risk in patients with cirrhosis.

    Time frame: Day 0

  3. To study the association of UGT1A1 polymorphisms affecting bilirubin conjugation, with risk of GS in patients with cirrhosis.

    Time frame: Day 0

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Nov 2024; primary completion for Dec 2025, 13 months later.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 6, 2024
First posted
Nov 7, 2024
StartEst.
Nov 10, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2025
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2025
Last update
Nov 7, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 7, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06679738
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 7, 2024
Start date
Nov 10, 2024 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 7, 2024

Study contacts

Dr Ananthu Narayan S J, MD
Contact
ananthunarayansj@gmail.com
01146300000

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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