RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:2733

Omodysplasia

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

614

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,483

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Omodysplasia is a rare skeletal characterized by severe limb shortening and facial dysmorphism. Two types of omodysplasia have been described: an or generalized form (also referred to as micromelic with dislocation of radius) marked by severe micromelic dwarfism with predominantly rhizomelic shortening of both the upper and lower limbs, and an form in which stature is normal and shortening is limited to the upper limbs.

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.

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.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    614 matched papers (344 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?

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?

614

614 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=5449) is 41.

614 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).

344 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 614 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,483

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
    Cortelli P5 papers · 2025

    Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Giorgio E4 papers · 2025

    Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino 10126, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Padiath QS4 papers · 2025

    Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health, 3135 Pitt Public Health Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA. qpadiath@pitt.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Zhang J4 papers · 2025

    Department of Radiation Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, People's Republic of China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Alturkustani M3 papers · 2024

    From the Departments of Pathology (Neuropathology) (MA, RH, L-CA) and Medical Imaging (MS), London Health Sciences Centre and Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; and Department of Pathology, King Abdulaziz University and Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MA).

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Brusco A3 papers · 2021

    Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino 10126, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Capellari S3 papers · 2019

    Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Filmus J3 papers · 2023

    Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada jorge.filmus@sri.utoronto.ca.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Kim J3 papers · 2025

    Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Lee JH3 papers · 2024

    Department of Cosmetics Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea.

    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 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.

low 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.

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.

"Omodysplasia"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Omodysplasia"

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 (614) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-26T21:00:44.551Z