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Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 3Phase 4SUtoChildT1DNCT04239586

Switching From Insulin to Sulfonylurea in Diabetes Associated With Variants in MODY Genes

A Phase 4 study testing Sulfonylurea in people with Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 3 and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 1, run by Haukeland University Hospital at 1 site in Norway.

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Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to switch from insulin to oral sulfonylurea in patients with apparent type 1 diabetes or maturity onset diabetes in the young that are insulin treated. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 2 to 95 years
What is being tested?
Sulfonylurea
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
30 participants
Where
1 siteNorway
Study dates
18 Apr 2017to Apr 2022
Phase
Phase 4
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 2 to 95 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Diabetes and DNA sequence variant of unknown significance (VUS, class 3) or pathogenic (class 4, and 5) in the HNF1A, HNF4A, or HNF1B genes
  • On insulin treatment
  • Willing and able to provide informed consent (parents if younger than 16 years of age)

Who cannot join

  • Known anaphylactic response to sulfonylurea
  • Diabetes and DNA sequence variant in the HNF1A, HNF4A, or HNF1B genes that are known to be non-pathogenic (class 1-2)
  • Not willing or able to provide informed consent (parents if younger than 16 years of age)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Norway1 site
  • Department of Pediatrics and Adolescents, Haukeland University Hospital, and Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen

    Bergen, NO-5021

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About this study

Official title: Switching From Insulin to Sulfonylurea in Childhood and Adult Diabetes Due to Variants in the HNF1A, HNF4A, or HNF1B Genes

The purpose of this study is to switch from insulin to oral sulfonylurea in patients with apparent type 1 diabetes or maturity onset diabetes in the young that are insulin treated. The molecular cause will be DNA variants in the HNF1A, HNF4A, or HNF1B genes that are of unknown significance (VUS, class 3) or known to be pathogenic (class 4 and 5).

Read the detailed description

Maturity onset diabetes in the young (MODY) is characterised by monogenic diabetes due to beta-cell dysfunction, with typical onset of diabetes before age of 25 years. There are 14 known forms of MODY, ranging from rather common to extremely rare.

About 1% of patients in the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes registry may have disease causing MODY mutations, according to a study recently published by the investigator's group and others.

MODY associated mutations in the transcription factors HNF1A, HNF4A, and HNF1B leads to activation of the potassium channel causing depolarisation of the beta-cell membrane, which is crucial for excretion of insulin. By treating patients with HNF1A-MODY, HNF4A-MODY, and HNF1B-MODY with sulfonylurea class of drugs, these channels will close, causing depolarisation of the beta-cell membrane, and release of insulin. Hence, these patients can often stop insulin treatment when they are treated with sulfonylurea class drugs.

Due to high throughput sequencing, a number of rare variants in these genes have been discovered. In many cases, bioinformatic tools are not sufficient to correctly classify these variants. In the present study, we intend to identify rare variants in the HNF1A, HNF4A, and HNF1B genes in patients with insulin dependent diabetes identified through the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes registry or the Norwegian MODY Registry with possibly disease causing HNF1A, HNF4A, or HNF1B mutations with sulfonylurea to see if they can reduce or even stop insulin treatment, and regulate their diabetes with sulfonylurea only. All variants will be investigated by bioinformatics tools as well as functional assays (tests for DNA-binding, transcriptional activation, nuclear localisation, protein expression). Primary endpoints are efficacy of sulfonylurea treatment measured by insulin requirement or not and level of HbA1c. Secondary endpoints are tolerance of sulfonylurea and effect on insulin secretion by oral and intravenous glucose tolerance tests. Bioinformatics and functional characterisation will be compared with success to reach primary endpoints.

Being tested
Sulfonylurea
Keywords
Maturity onset diabetes in the young, Childhood diabetes, Type 1 diabetes
Medical subject headings
Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 3, Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 1, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • SulfonylureaDrug

    Also called Glibenclamide, Glipizide, Glimerepiride

    Starting treatment with sulfonylurea class of drug

Study groups in NCT04239586
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Sulfonylurea treatment groupExperimentalIncreasing doses of sulfonylurea class of drug to see whether insulin treatment can be reduced in dose or stopped.
Receives: Drug: Sulfonylurea

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Effect of sulfonylurea treatment on insulin requirement measured in units insulin per kg per day

    Effect of sulfonylurea treatment on insulin requirement measured in units insulin per kg bodyweight per day, recorded at intervals of 3-6 months after exposure to sulfonylurea compared to before initiation of sulfonylurea

    Measured: 5 years

  2. Metabolic control of diabetes measured by HbA1c in mmol/mol

    Metabolic control of diabetes measured by HbA1c in mmol/mol, recorded at intervals of 3-6 months after exposure to sulfonylurea compared to before initiation of sulfonylurea

    Measured: 5 years

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Level of sulfonylurea dose in mg per kg per day

    Level of sulfonylurea dose in mg per kg body weight per day, recorded at intervals of 3-6 months after exposure to sulfonylurea compared to before initiation of sulfonylurea

    Measured: 5 years

  2. Prevalence of side effects of sulfonylurea

    Recording potential side effects of sulfonylurea, such as nausea, change in body weight, episodes of severe hypoglycemia, discolouration of teeth, diarrhoea, cardiovascular events, recorded at intervals of 3-6 months after exposure to sulfonylurea compared to before initiation of sulfonylurea

    Measured: 5 years

  3. Effect on endogenous insulin secretion assessed by intravenous glucose tolerance tests

    Maximum increment of serum insulin in nmol/L and serum c-peptide in pmol/L at intravenous glucose tolerance tests, recorded at intervals of 6-12 months after exposure to sulfonylurea compared to before initiation of sulfonylurea

    Measured: 5 years

  4. Effect on secretion of incretin hormones, assessed by oral glucose tolerance tests

    Maximum increment of serum insulin in nmol/L, serum c-peptide in pmol/L and incretins (GIP in pmol/L and GLP-1 in pmol/L) at oral glucose tolerance tests and in comparison with intravenous gluclose tolerance tests, recorded at intervals of 6-12 months after exposure to sulfonylurea compared to before initiation of sulfonylurea

    Measured: 5 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted27 Jan 2020
  2. Study start18 Apr 2017
  3. Primary completionApr 2022 (estimated)
  4. Study completionApr 2022 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
Switching insulin-treated diabetes patients with possibly disease causing mutations in HNF1A, HNF4A, or HNF1B to treatment with sulfonylurea.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
30 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04239586
Sponsor's protocol ID
2018/2388
Acronym
SUtoChildT1D
Status last verified
Jan 2020
First submitted
2 Jan 2020
Last updated
27 Jan 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: IPD that underlie the results in the planned publications. The IPD will be summary data, and with no personal identifiers.

Publications

  • Gloyn AL, Pearson ER, Antcliff JF, Proks P, Bruining GJ, Slingerland AS, Howard N, Srinivasan S, Silva JM, Molnes J, Edghill EL, Frayling TM, Temple IK, Mackay D, Shield JP, Sumnik Z, van Rhijn A, Wales JK, Clark P, Gorman S, Aisenberg J, Ellard S, Njolstad PR, Ashcroft FM, Hattersley AT. Activating mutations in the gene encoding the ATP-sensitive potassium-channel subunit Kir6.2 and permanent neonatal diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2004 Apr 29;350(18):1838-49. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa032922.

    PubMed 15115830
  • Sagen JV, Raeder H, Hathout E, Shehadeh N, Gudmundsson K, Baevre H, Abuelo D, Phornphutkul C, Molnes J, Bell GI, Gloyn AL, Hattersley AT, Molven A, Sovik O, Njolstad PR. Permanent neonatal diabetes due to mutations in KCNJ11 encoding Kir6.2: patient characteristics and initial response to sulfonylurea therapy. Diabetes. 2004 Oct;53(10):2713-8. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.53.10.2713.

    PubMed 15448106
  • Pearson ER, Flechtner I, Njolstad PR, Malecki MT, Flanagan SE, Larkin B, Ashcroft FM, Klimes I, Codner E, Iotova V, Slingerland AS, Shield J, Robert JJ, Holst JJ, Clark PM, Ellard S, Sovik O, Polak M, Hattersley AT; Neonatal Diabetes International Collaborative Group. Switching from insulin to oral sulfonylureas in patients with diabetes due to Kir6.2 mutations. N Engl J Med. 2006 Aug 3;355(5):467-77. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa061759.

    PubMed 16885550
  • Rafiq M, Flanagan SE, Patch AM, Shields BM, Ellard S, Hattersley AT; Neonatal Diabetes International Collaborative Group. Effective treatment with oral sulfonylureas in patients with diabetes due to sulfonylurea receptor 1 (SUR1) mutations. Diabetes Care. 2008 Feb;31(2):204-9. doi: 10.2337/dc07-1785. Epub 2007 Nov 19.

    PubMed 18025408
  • Stoffers DA, Zinkin NT, Stanojevic V, Clarke WL, Habener JF. Pancreatic agenesis attributable to a single nucleotide deletion in the human IPF1 gene coding sequence. Nat Genet. 1997 Jan;15(1):106-10. doi: 10.1038/ng0197-106.

    PubMed 8988180
  • Njolstad PR, Sovik O, Cuesta-Munoz A, Bjorkhaug L, Massa O, Barbetti F, Undlien DE, Shiota C, Magnuson MA, Molven A, Matschinsky FM, Bell GI. Neonatal diabetes mellitus due to complete glucokinase deficiency. N Engl J Med. 2001 May 24;344(21):1588-92. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200105243442104. No abstract available.

    PubMed 11372010
  • Babenko AP, Polak M, Cave H, Busiah K, Czernichow P, Scharfmann R, Bryan J, Aguilar-Bryan L, Vaxillaire M, Froguel P. Activating mutations in the ABCC8 gene in neonatal diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med. 2006 Aug 3;355(5):456-66. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa055068.

    PubMed 16885549
  • Johansson BB, Irgens HU, Molnes J, Sztromwasser P, Aukrust I, Juliusson PB, Sovik O, Levy S, Skrivarhaug T, Joner G, Molven A, Johansson S, Njolstad PR. Targeted next-generation sequencing reveals MODY in up to 6.5% of antibody-negative diabetes cases listed in the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry. Diabetologia. 2017 Apr;60(4):625-635. doi: 10.1007/s00125-016-4167-1. Epub 2016 Dec 2.

    PubMed 27913849
  • Irgens HU, Molnes J, Johansson BB, Ringdal M, Skrivarhaug T, Undlien DE, Sovik O, Joner G, Molven A, Njolstad PR. Prevalence of monogenic diabetes in the population-based Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry. Diabetologia. 2013 Jul;56(7):1512-9. doi: 10.1007/s00125-013-2916-y. Epub 2013 Apr 27.

    PubMed 23624530
  • Najmi LA, Aukrust I, Flannick J, Molnes J, Burtt N, Molven A, Groop L, Altshuler D, Johansson S, Bjorkhaug L, Njolstad PR. Functional Investigations of HNF1A Identify Rare Variants as Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in the General Population. Diabetes. 2017 Feb;66(2):335-346. doi: 10.2337/db16-0460. Epub 2016 Nov 29.

    PubMed 27899486
  • Hattersley AT, Greeley SAW, Polak M, Rubio-Cabezas O, Njolstad PR, Mlynarski W, Castano L, Carlsson A, Raile K, Chi DV, Ellard S, Craig ME. ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2018: The diagnosis and management of monogenic diabetes in children and adolescents. Pediatr Diabetes. 2018 Oct;19 Suppl 27:47-63. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12772. No abstract available.

    PubMed 30225972
  • Bowman P, Sulen A, Barbetti F, Beltrand J, Svalastoga P, Codner E, Tessmann EH, Juliusson PB, Skrivarhaug T, Pearson ER, Flanagan SE, Babiker T, Thomas NJ, Shepherd MH, Ellard S, Klimes I, Szopa M, Polak M, Iafusco D, Hattersley AT, Njolstad PR; Neonatal Diabetes International Collaborative Group. Effectiveness and safety of long-term treatment with sulfonylureas in patients with neonatal diabetes due to KCNJ11 mutations: an international cohort study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2018 Aug;6(8):637-646. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(18)30106-2. Epub 2018 Jun 4.

    PubMed 29880308
  • Sagen JV, Bjorkhaug L, Haukanes BI, Grevle L, Molnes J, Nedrebo BG, Sovik O, Njolstad PR, Johansson S, Molven A. The HNF1A mutant Ala180Val: Clinical challenges in determining causality of a rare HNF1A variant in familial diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2017 Nov;133:142-149. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2017.08.001. Epub 2017 Sep 1.

    PubMed 28934671
  • Flannick J, Johansson S, Njolstad PR. Common and rare forms of diabetes mellitus: towards a continuum of diabetes subtypes. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2016 Jul;12(7):394-406. doi: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.50. Epub 2016 Apr 15.

    PubMed 27080136
  • Balamurugan K, Bjorkhaug L, Mahajan S, Kanthimathi S, Njolstad PR, Srinivasan N, Mohan V, Radha V. Structure-function studies of HNF1A (MODY3) gene mutations in South Indian patients with monogenic diabetes. Clin Genet. 2016 Dec;90(6):486-495. doi: 10.1111/cge.12757. Epub 2016 Mar 4.

    PubMed 26853433

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 4 study testing Sulfonylurea in people with Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 3 and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 1, run by Haukeland University Hospital at 1 site in Norway.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Jan 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Norway. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 4 studies take place after a treatment is approved, to learn more about its long-term benefits and risks in everyday use.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

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What does the primary outcome measure?

Effect of sulfonylurea treatment on insulin requirement measured in units insulin per kg per day (time frame: 5 years). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04239586, which also lists 17 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

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AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Jan 2020.

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