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ORPHA:248111

Juvenile Huntington disease

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: JHD · Juvenile Huntington chorea

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

Publications

114

48.5th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

534

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Juvenile Huntington disease (JHD) is a form of Huntington disease (HD), characterized by onset of signs and symptoms before 20 years of age.

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)

juvenile Huntington chorea

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 specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    114 matched papers (38 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; 134 for broader category Huntington disease

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?

114

114 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.

114 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).

38 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 48.5th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 114 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

534

Distinct author names in 114 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
    Squitieri F8 papers · 2023

    IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo and Mendel Institute of Human Genetics, Rome, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Theilmann J5 papers · 1997
    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Hayden MR4 papers · 1997
    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Nopoulos P4 papers · 2025

    From the Departments of Psychiatry (A.T., E.E., V.M., P.E.-P., E.M.), Radiology (V.M.), Neurology (K.M., P.E.-P.), and Pediatrics (K.M.), University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; Department of Biostatistics (J.D.), University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City; and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (W.D.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. peggy-nopoulos@uiowa.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Telenius H4 papers · 1995

    Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Almqvist E3 papers · 1997
    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Andrew SE3 papers · 1994

    Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Bakels HS3 papers · 2025

    Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    de Bot ST3 papers · 2025

    Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Goldberg YP3 papers · 1995
    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. 134 trials are registered for Huntington disease, 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.

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.

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

Broader category: Huntington disease

134

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

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

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.

"Juvenile Huntington disease" OR "Juvenile Huntington chorea"

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

"Juvenile Huntington disease" OR "Juvenile Huntington chorea" OR "Huntington disease and related disorders"

Recall-expansion terms: Huntington disease and related disorders

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"Huntington disease"

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: JHD

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 1 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T10:38:52.728Z