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ORPHA:178461

X-linked myopathy with postural muscle atrophy

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: XMPMA

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

71

46.9th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

521

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

FHL1

Definitive

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare muscular characterized by an adult-onset scapulo-axio-peroneal . Clinical presentation includes shoulder girdle atrophy, scapular winging, axial muscular atrophy of postural muscles combined with a generalized hypertrophy. Typically, neck rigidity, rigid spine, Achilles tendon shortening, and respiratory insufficiency later in disease course are present.

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 (1)

myopathy, X-linked, with postural muscle atrophy, X-linked recessive

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.”

3/6 stages with a signal

No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — FHL1

  2. LiteraturePresent

    71 matched papers (35 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 trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 181 for broader category myopathy

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?

Yes — we know a specific gene responsible (FHL1).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

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?

71

71 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.

71 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).

35 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 46.9th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 71 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

521

Distinct author names in 71 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
    Schoser B9 papers · 2024

    Friedrich-Baur Institute, Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1a, 80336 Munich, Germany. bschoser@med.uni-muenchen.de

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Windpassinger C7 papers · 2025

    Neurogenetics Section, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R8, Canada. christian.windpassinger@meduni-graz.at

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Bönnemann CG5 papers · 2023

    Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Quasthoff S5 papers · 2020

    Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 22, 8036, Graz, Austria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Bonne G4 papers · 2014

    Inserm, U974, Paris F-75013, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Myology Center of Research, UM76; CNRS FRE 3617, Institut de Myologie, Paris F-75013, France; AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, U.F. Cardiogénétique et Myogénétique Moléculaire, Service de Biochimie Métabolique, Paris F-75013, France. Electronic address: g.bonne@institut-myologie.org.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Mitchell CA4 papers · 2014

    Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia christina.mitchell@monash.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Schessl J4 papers · 2013

    Division of Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Straub V4 papers · 2022

    John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    McGrath MJ3 papers · 2014

    Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Wehnert M3 papers · 2020

    Institute of Human Genetics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.

    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). 181 trials are registered for myopathy, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

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.

181 interventional trials matched myopathy, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: myopathy

181

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

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.

"X-linked myopathy with postural muscle atrophy" OR "XMPMA" OR "myopathy, X-linked, with postural muscle atrophy, X-linked recessive"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"X-linked myopathy with postural muscle atrophy" OR "XMPMA" OR "myopathy, X-linked, with postural muscle atrophy, X-linked recessive" OR "FHL1" OR "X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy"

Recall-expansion terms: FHL1, X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

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

Parent-category trials query:

"myopathy"

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; 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 2026-07-27T08:52:01.310Z