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ORPHA:2563

MOMO syndrome

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Macrocephaly-obesity-intellectual disability-ocular abnormalities syndrome · Macrosomia-obesity-macrocephaly-ocular abnormalities syndrome

Publications

3,434

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

154

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

MOMO syndrome is a very rare genetic overgrowth/obesity syndrome characterized by macrocephaly, obesity, mental (intellectual) disability and ocular abnormalities. Other frequent clinical signs include macrosomia, downslanting palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, broad nasal root, high and broad forehead and delay in bone maturation, in association with normal thyroid function and karyotype.

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)

macrocephaly-obesity-mental disability-ocular abnormalities syndrome · macrosomia-obesity-macrocephaly-ocular abnormalities 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

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

    3,434 matched papers (2,623 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    77 HPO annotations (e.g. Obesity; Thick lower lip vermilion; Thick upper lip vermilion) Source

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  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)

77

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0008008

  • Obesity
  • Thick lower lip vermilion
  • Thick upper lip vermilion
  • High palate
  • Brachycephaly

Showing 5 of 77 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

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?

3,434

3,434 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.

3,434 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).

2,623 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 31 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

154

Distinct author names in 31 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
    Moretti-Ferreira D2 papers · 2008

    Department of Genetics, State University of São Paulo, Botucatu, Brazil.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Wang Z2 papers · 2017

    Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Abdalla E1 paper · 2026

    Department of Human Genetics, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Ahmad CB1 paper · 2010
    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Ahmad QI1 paper · 2010

    Department of Neonatology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Ahmad SM1 paper · 2010
    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Alcalá OZ1 paper · 2022

    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Clinical Analysis Service, General Hospital Consortium of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Ali M1 paper · 2026

    Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Amin AK1 paper · 2026

    Department of Human Genetics, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Arancibia M1 paper · 2019

    Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Chile; Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Salud (CIESAL), Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. Email: marcelo.arancibiame@uv.cl.

    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 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.

low 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.

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 0 · after dedupe 0 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 0 · 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).

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 MOMO 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.

("MOMO syndrome" OR "Macrocephaly-obesity-intellectual disability-ocular abnormalities syndrome" OR "Macrosomia-obesity-macrocephaly-ocular abnormalities syndrome" OR "macrocephaly-obesity-mental disability-ocular abnormalities syndrome") OR ("MOMO" OR "MOMO-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"MOMO syndrome" OR "Macrocephaly-obesity-intellectual disability-ocular abnormalities syndrome" OR "Macrosomia-obesity-macrocephaly-ocular abnormalities syndrome" OR "macrocephaly-obesity-mental disability-ocular abnormalities 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 short or not clearly distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (3434) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-26T20:31:23.280Z