RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:1946

Amelocerebrohypohidrotic syndrome

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Epilepsy-dementia-amelogenesis imperfecta syndrome · Kohlschütter-Tönz syndrome

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

Publications

92

59.5th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

717

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

ROGDI

Definitive

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A genetically heterogeneous syndrome characterized by the triad of amelogenesis imperfect, onset , with or without regression and dementia.

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 (3)

Kohlschutter-Tonz syndrome · amelocerebrohypohidrotic syndrome · epilepsy-dementia-amelogenesis imperfecta 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.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No matched interventional trial; the gene is known and literature exists — preclinical or natural-history work may still be the practical next step.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — ROGDI

  2. LiteraturePresent

    92 matched papers (68 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?

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

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?

92

92 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.

92 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).

68 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 59.5th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 92 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

717

Distinct author names in 92 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
    Zschocke J9 papers · 2025

    Division of Human Genetics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Schossig A7 papers · 2021

    Division of Human Genetics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Bloch-Zupan A5 papers · 2024

    Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Strasbourg, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Lee J4 papers · 2022

    Department of Pediatrics, Inha University Hospital, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Wolf NI4 papers · 2017

    Department of Child Neurology, VU University Medical Center, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Wright JT4 papers · 2023

    Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology, College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, New York; Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Dander A3 papers · 2014
    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Fischer M3 papers · 2014

    Division for Bioinformatics, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. maria.fischer@i-med.ac.at

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Hernandez M3 papers · 2024

    Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Competence Center for Rare Oral and Dental Diseases, Nancy, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Jimenez-Armijo A3 papers · 2024

    Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), IN-SERM U1258, CNRS- UMR7104, Illkirch, France.

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

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.

medium 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.

Observational and natural-history studies

2 observational studies match 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.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

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.

"Amelocerebrohypohidrotic syndrome" OR "Epilepsy-dementia-amelogenesis imperfecta syndrome" OR "Kohlschütter-Tönz syndrome" OR "Kohlschutter-Tonz syndrome"

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

"Amelocerebrohypohidrotic syndrome" OR "Epilepsy-dementia-amelogenesis imperfecta syndrome" OR "Kohlschütter-Tönz syndrome" OR "Kohlschutter-Tonz syndrome" OR "ROGDI"

Recall-expansion terms: ROGDI

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 2 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; 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

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