RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:1272

Aymé-Gripp syndrome

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Brachycephaly-deafness-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome · Brachycephaly-hearing loss-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome · Fine-Lubinsky syndrome

Publications

82

60.9th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

571

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare genetic multiple anomalies/ syndrome characterized by cataract, sensorineural hearing loss, with variable degrees of , , short stature, brachycephaly, and facial features (such as flat facial appearance, ptosis, short nasal tip, long philtrum, low-set and posteriorly rotated ears, and small mouth). Additional reported manifestations are skeletal abnormalities, nail , mammary gland hypoplasia, and autism spectrum disorder.

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

brachycephaly-deafness-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome · fine-Lubinsky syndrome

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

1/6 stages with a signal

Research-stage checklist from open sources (GenCC, literature, Monarch when enriched, ClinicalTrials.gov). Not a prognosis or care recommendation.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    82 matched papers (73 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialNot found

    No matched interventional trial under our ClinicalTrials.gov rules

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

82

82 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

82 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

73 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 60.9th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 82 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

571

Distinct author names in 82 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    Bohnsack BL4 papers · 2026

    Division of Ophthalmology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 225 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Takahashi S4 papers · 2023

    Laboratory Animal Resource Center in Transborder Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Drackley A3 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Ing A3 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Niceta M3 papers · 2024

    Dipartimento di Ematologia, Oncologia e Medicina Molecolare, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, 00161 Italy; Polo di Ricerca - Malattie rare, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù IRCSS, Rome, 00146 Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Rossen JL3 papers · 2026

    Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Amudhavalli SM2 papers · 2018

    Division of Genetics Children's Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Caversaccio M2 papers · 2025

    ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Chen W2 papers · 2022

    State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Centre for Ocular Diseases, Guangzhou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Esposito A2 papers · 2024

    Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Diseases Unit, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present).

Data as of 27 July 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Aymé-Gripp syndrome" OR "Brachycephaly-deafness-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome" OR "Brachycephaly-hearing loss-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome" OR "Fine-Lubinsky syndrome"

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ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Aymé-Gripp syndrome" OR "Brachycephaly-deafness-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome" OR "Brachycephaly-hearing loss-cataract-intellectual disability syndrome" OR "Fine-Lubinsky syndrome"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-26T16:53:45.426Z