RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:280654

Autosomal recessive nail dysplasia

high confidenceDisorder

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

19

26.3th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

105

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

FZD6

Strong

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare, isolated nail anomaly characterized by claw-shaped, thick, hyperplastic, hard and hyperpigmented nails, subungual hyperkeratosis, onycholysis and slow nail growth. Variable degree of disease severity has been reported.

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.”

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.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Strong — FZD6

  2. LiteraturePresent

    19 matched papers (9 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?

Yes — we know a specific gene responsible (FZD6).

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?

19

19 papers have ever been indexed 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.

19 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).

9 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 26.3th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 19 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

105

Distinct author names in 19 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
    Ahmad W3 papers · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Baig SM3 papers · 2013

    Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Health Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Dahl N3 papers · 2013

    Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden. Electronic address: niklas.dahl@igp.uu.se.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Khan S3 papers · 2020

    Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KPK, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Klar J3 papers · 2013

    Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Chang H2 papers · 2018

    Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA hchang@dermatology.wisc.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Fröjmark AS2 papers · 2013

    Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, The Rudbeck Laboratory and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Muhammad N2 papers · 2020

    Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Nawaz S2 papers · 2012

    Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Health Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Abbas M1 paper · 2020

    Department of Prosthodontics, Ziauddin College of Dentistry, Karachi.

    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.

high 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.

"Autosomal recessive nail dysplasia"

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

"Autosomal recessive nail dysplasia" OR "FZD6"

Recall-expansion terms: FZD6

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase

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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 2026-07-27T11:56:17.097Z