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ORPHA:1896

EEC syndrome

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft lip/palate syndrome

Publications

627

72.3th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,050

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

EEC syndrome is a genetic developmental disorder characterized by ectrodactyly, ectodermal , and orofacial clefts (cleft lip/palate).

How rare: 1-9 / 100 000 — about one to nine people per hundred thousand.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (3)

Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia Cleft Lip/Palate · ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft lip/palate syndrome · ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft 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.”

3/6 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

    627 matched papers (256 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    195 HPO annotations (e.g. Thick eyebrow; Lacrimation abnormality; Carious teeth) Source

  4. Animal modelPresent

    5 genotype models (Mus musculus) Source

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  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)

195

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0010004

  • Thick eyebrow
  • Lacrimation abnormality
  • Carious teeth
  • Taurodontia
  • Abnormal dental enamel morphology

Showing 5 of 195 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

5

Model associations linked to this Mondo ID

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

Therapies

Designations, candidates, and chemicals

FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.

Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)

No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.

Open Targets candidates

No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.

CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)

No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

627

627 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.

627 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).

256 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 72.3th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 598 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,050

Distinct author names in 200 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
    van Bokhoven H7 papers · 2017

    Department of Human Genetics, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Wang Y7 papers · 2025

    Ningxia Key Laboratory of Oral Disease Research, Ningxia Key Laboratory of Craniomaxillofacial Deformities Research, School of Stomatology, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750004, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Zhou H7 papers · 2023

    Departments of Human Genetics, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Barbaro V4 papers · 2026

    Fondazione Banca degli Occhi del Veneto, Venice, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Di Iorio E4 papers · 2026

    Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Dötsch V4 papers · 2023

    Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany. vdoetsch@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Ferrari S4 papers · 2026

    Fondazione Banca degli Occhi del Veneto, Venice, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Schneider H4 papers · 2022

    Center for Ectodermal Dysplasias Erlangen (CEDER), University Hospital Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Bonelli F3 papers · 2023

    Fondazione Banca degli Occhi del Veneto, Venice, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Chen J3 papers · 2025

    Department of Pathology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook, New York, USA.

    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. 1 observational study did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial.

Data as of 11 September 2026 · last trial check 11 September 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (5501 of 7126). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

medium confidence · 38.6th 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.

Observational and natural-history studies

1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as recruiting.

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Other registries (secondary)

Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.

raw 1 · after dedupe 1 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 1 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-29

Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri

No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).

Uncertain / not reviewed (1)

Where to find support

Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.

Orphanet entry for EEC syndrome — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

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.

("EEC syndrome" OR "Ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft lip/palate syndrome" OR "Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia Cleft Lip/Palate" OR "ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft syndrome") OR ("EEC-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"EEC syndrome" OR "Ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft lip/palate syndrome" OR "Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia Cleft Lip/Palate" OR "ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft syndrome"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 1 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 short or not clearly distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-26T18:25:50.501Z