ORPHA:280288
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease due to HSPD1 mutation
Also known as: Mitochondrial HSP60 chaperonopathy
Query health: suspect — Only one of 3 strategies returned hits (phrase).
Publications
29
28.7th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
212
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
HSPD1
Strong
Readiness
2/6
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:0012824
- MeSH:C567390
- OMIM:612233
- UMLS:C2677109
Additional Mondo synonyms (7)
HLD4 · HSPD1 leukodystrophy · MitCHAP60 disease · hypomyelinating leukodystrophy type 4 · leukodystrophy caused by mutation in HSPD1 · leukodystrophy, hypomyelinating, type 4 · mitochondrial HSP60 chaperonopathy
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 matched interventional trial; the gene is known and literature exists — preclinical or natural-history work may still be the practical next step.
- Gene identifiedPresent
Strong — HSPD1
- LiteraturePresent
29 matched papers (11 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- 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?
Yes — we know a specific gene responsible (HSPD1).
GenCC classification: Strong.
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?
29
29 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.
29 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).
11 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 28.7th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 29 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
212
Distinct author names in 29 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.
- 01Bross P7 papers · 2024
Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: peter.bross@clin.au.dk.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Palmfeldt J4 papers · 2024
Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Fernandez-Guerra P3 papers · 2024
Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Molecular Endocrinology Unit, KMEB, Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark. Electronic address: pfernandez@health.sdu.dk.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Ang D2 papers · 2020
Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5650, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Cömert C2 papers · 2024
Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: cagla.comert@clin.au.dk.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Conway de Macario E2 papers · 2019
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Columbus Center; Institute of Marine and Environmental TechnologyBaltimore, MD, USA; Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and TechnologyPalermo, Italy.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Corydon TJ2 papers · 2013Papers in Europe PMC
- 08Georgopoulos C2 papers · 2020
Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5650, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Hansen J2 papers · 2024
Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Houlden H2 papers · 2024
Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology , London, UK.
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.
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.
Broader category Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease 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: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
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.
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 2026-07-26This 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.
"Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease due to HSPD1 mutation" OR "Mitochondrial HSP60 chaperonopathy" OR "HSPD1 leukodystrophy" OR "MitCHAP60 disease" OR "hypomyelinating leukodystrophy type 4" OR "leukodystrophy caused by mutation in HSPD1" OR "leukodystrophy, hypomyelinating, type 4"
MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Leukodystrophy, Hypomyelinating, 4
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease due to HSPD1 mutation" OR "Mitochondrial HSP60 chaperonopathy" OR "HSPD1 leukodystrophy" OR "MitCHAP60 disease" OR "hypomyelinating leukodystrophy type 4" OR "leukodystrophy caused by mutation in HSPD1" OR "leukodystrophy, hypomyelinating, type 4" OR "Leukodystrophy, Hypomyelinating, 4" OR "HSPD1"
Recall-expansion terms: HSPD1
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease"
Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Synonyms dropped by stoplist: HLD4
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 2026-07-27T11:52:08.666Z