If you are interested in having your child participate you are encouraged to do following three steps:

1. Go to:  http://www.uab.edu/medicine/hrfdcc/studies  and download the FAQ for you and your child's doctor.

2. Call Elena Gibson, RN, the Research Coordinator (RC) for the study at 202-476- 2197 for questions or to participate.

3. Send in the forms for each study you would like your child to participate in:

• Clinical Database

• Tissue Repository

• Genetic Studies
  
  

In this competitive renewal, the UAB HRFDCC will continue to compile baseline and longitudinal clinical information in their HRFD Clinical Database; expand our bio-materials (DNA and tissue) repositories; and deploy new strategies to identify genetic mutations in ARPKD and other HFRD patients, including new tools to interpret PKHD1 missense variants. Clinical and genetic data, as well as patient bio-specimens, will be drawn from tertiary care centers throughout the Americas (North, Central, and South). Finally, they will utilize the learning management system established in their CTSA-funded program to establish a multi-modality resource for their expanding portfolio of HRFD-related educational information and tools.

The goal for this renewal application is to acquire a sufficient volume of clinical data, biological specimens, and genomic information in a centralized resource to accelerate discovery research in human HRFD and integrate the resulting data in an enabling platform for developing new, targeted interventional strategies, assessing genotype-phenotype correlations, and identifying new disease genes by the Investigator User Base, as well as other members of the research community.