ORPHA:268973
Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type Ia
Also known as: FCD type Ia
Publications
110
51.4th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
769
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
1/6
Stages with a signal
How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0017096
- UMLS:C5679767
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.”
1/6 stages with a signal
Research-stage checklist from open sources (GenCC, literature, Monarch when enriched, ClinicalTrials.gov). Not a prognosis or care recommendation.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
110 matched papers (66 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot found
No HPO disease–phenotype associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Animal modelNot found
No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Orphan designationNot found
No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source
- 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)
None returned for this Mondo ID. That often means “not linked under this ID,” not “no clinical features.”
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?
110
110 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=3967) is 59.
110 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).
66 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 51.4th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 110 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
769
Distinct author names in 110 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.
- 01Guerrini R7 papers · 2023
From the IRCCS Meyer Children's Hospital (C.B., V.C., L.D.I., L.M., R.G.), Florence, Italy; University of Florence (C.B., L.G., R.G.), Florence, Italy; University Hospital Erlangen (I.B.), Germany; Columbia University (M.R.W., P.D.C.), New York, NY; Neurorehabilitation and Epileptology (T.H., I.M.), Vogtareuth, Germany; PMU Salzburg (T.H.), Austria; Yonsei University College of Medicine (H.-C.K., H.J.S.), Seoul, Republic of Korea; Rothschild Foundation Hospital (M.C.), Paris, France; Krankenhaus Mara (C.G.B., F.G.W., A.G., T.P.), Bielefeld University, Medical School, Germany; Charles University (B.H., B.S., L.K., P.K.), 2nd Faculty of Medicine and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Stanford University (B.E.P., H.V.), School of Medicine Stanford, CA; Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (H.G.W.L., E.Y., A.P.), MA; Society of Epilepsy Research (F.G.W.), Bielefeld, Germany; Case Western Reserve University (J.A.L.-R.), OH; Cleveland Clinic (J.A.L.-R., D.L.), Cleveland, OH; Sorbonne University (Sara Baldassari, Stéphanie Baulac), Paris Brain Institute (ICM), INSERM, CNRS, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University (G.A.G.), School of Medicine Stanford, CA; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (A.K., J.H.L.), Daejeon, South Korea; University of Maryland School of Medicine (P.B.C.), Baltimore, MD; and Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T (D.L.), Cambridge, MA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Blümcke I6 papers · 2024
Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany. ingmar.bluemcke@uk-erlangen.de
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Ikeda A6 papers · 2021
Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Matsumoto R6 papers · 2021
Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05
- 06
- 07Wang S6 papers · 2025
Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Yang H6 papers · 2021
From the Department of Neurosurgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University (D-HZ, F-J, G-ZX, Z-LZ, H-FS, HY), Chongqing, China; Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University(WG), Xi'an, Shanxi, China; Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region(H-FS), Chengdu, Sichuan, China. harvest1979@126.com huiyang64@yahoo.com.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Aronica E5 papers · 2019
Department of (Neuro)Pathology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105, AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e.aronica@amc.uva.nl.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Crino PB5 papers · 2023
Shriners Hospital Pediatric Research Center and Department of Neurology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140.
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.
high 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.
Broader category isolated focal cortical dysplasia also has no matched interventional trial. See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.
Broader category: isolated focal cortical dysplasia
0
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Parent-category matching found a broader label but no interventional trials under it. How we count trials.
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 2026-07-30
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 Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type Ia — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This 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.
"Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type Ia" OR "FCD type Ia"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type Ia" OR "FCD type Ia"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"isolated focal cortical dysplasia"
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; 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 2026-07-27T11:32:16.039Z