ORPHA:280200
Microform holoprosencephaly
Also known as: HPE, minor form · HPE-L · Holoprosencephaly, minor form · Holoprosencephaly-like · Microform HPE
Publications
135
49.9th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
818
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
3/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A benign form of holoprosencephaly characterized by midline defects without the typical HPE defect in brain cleavage and which can variably manifest with microcephaly, hypotelorism, midline cleft lip and/or flat nose, choanal stenosis, pyriform sinus stenosis, coloboma as well as a single median maxillary incisor.
How rare: 1-9 / 100 000 — about one to nine people per hundred thousand.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0017219
- UMLS:C5393309
Additional Mondo synonyms (3)
HoloprosencC)phalie, minor form · Holoprosencéphalie, minor form · holoprosencephaly-like
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.”
3/6 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
135 matched papers (59 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedPresent
148 HPO annotations (e.g. Absent lacrimal punctum; Solitary median maxillary central incisor; Cleft palate) Source
- Animal modelPresent
3 genotype models (Mus musculus) Source
- 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)
148
Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0017219
- Absent lacrimal punctum
- Solitary median maxillary central incisor
- Cleft palate
- Anophthalmia
- Hypoplasia of the maxilla
Showing 5 of 148 — open Monarch for the full list.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
3
Model associations linked to this Mondo ID
- Zic2Ku/Zic2Ku [background:] C3.CAnNCrl-Zic2Ku·MGI:3639581·Mus musculus
- Zic2Ku/Zic2Ku [background:] 129S.CAnNCrl(C3)-Zic2Ku·MGI:5827598·Mus musculus
- Zic2tm1Jaru/Zic2tm1Jaru [background:] involves: 129S4/SvJae * C57BL/6·MGI:2653209·Mus musculus
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?
135
135 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.
135 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).
59 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 49.9th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 135 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
818
Distinct author names in 135 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.
- 01Muenke M30 papers · 2021
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Roessler E18 papers · 2018
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1852, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Solomon BD16 papers · 2017
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Pineda-Alvarez DE11 papers · 2018
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-3717, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Richieri-Costa A10 papers · 2012
Serviço de Genética Clínica, Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais, Universidade de São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. richieri@usp.br
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Ribeiro LA9 papers · 2012
Serviço de Genética, Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais, Universidade de São Paulo, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Kruszka P7 papers · 2021
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Hu P6 papers · 2019
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Krauss RS6 papers · 2021
Department of Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Lacbawan F6 papers · 2010
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 35 Convent Drive, MSC 3717, Building 35, Room 1B-203, Bethesda, MD 20892-3717, USA.
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 holoprosencephaly 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: holoprosencephaly
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 Microform holoprosencephaly — 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.
"Microform holoprosencephaly" OR "HPE, minor form" OR "HPE-L" OR "Holoprosencephaly, minor form" OR "Holoprosencephaly-like" OR "Microform HPE" OR "HoloprosencC)phalie, minor form" OR "Holoprosencéphalie, minor form"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Microform holoprosencephaly" OR "HPE, minor form" OR "HPE-L" OR "Holoprosencephaly, minor form" OR "Holoprosencephaly-like" OR "Microform HPE" OR "HoloprosencC)phalie, minor form" OR "Holoprosencéphalie, minor form"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"holoprosencephaly"
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 2026-07-27T11:50:38.081Z