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Juvenile polyposis syndrome

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: JIP · JPS · Juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis · Juvenile intestinal polyposis

Publications

8,159

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,230

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

BMPR1A, ENG, SMAD4

Definitive

Readiness

4/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare inherited cancer-predisposing syndrome characterized by the presence of juvenile hamartomatous polyps in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (7)

jPS · juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis · juvenile intestinal polyposis · juvenile multiple polyps syndrome · juvenile polyposis · juvenile polyposis syndrome · polyposis, juvenile intestinal

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.”

4/6 stages with a signal

No matched interventional trial, but a gene association and an animal model are on record — often described as translation-ready / stalled at the clinical step.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — BMPR1A, ENG, SMAD4

  2. LiteraturePresent

    8,159 matched papers (4,846 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    121 HPO annotations (e.g. Low-set ears; Hematochezia; Anemia) Source

  4. Animal modelPresent

    2 genotype models (Mus musculus) Source

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  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 (BMPR1A, ENG, SMAD4).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

121

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0017380

  • Low-set ears
  • Hematochezia
  • Anemia
  • Hypoalbuminemia
  • Intestinal bleeding

Showing 5 of 121 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

2

Model associations linked to this Mondo ID

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?

8,159

8,159 papers — among the better-studied rare conditions, though still a fraction of common-disease literature (breast cancer: over 700,000). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.

8,159 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).

4,846 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 2,949 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,230

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
    Burke CA7 papers · 2025

    Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Durno C6 papers · 2026

    The Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Jelsig AM6 papers · 2024

    Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Anne.Marie.Jelsig@regionh.dk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Karstensen JG6 papers · 2024

    Danish Polyposis Registry, Gastro Unit, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Ishida H5 papers · 2026

    Department of Digestive Tract and General Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    MacFarland SP5 papers · 2026

    Department of Pediatrics, Division of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia;, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Anderson JC4 papers · 2026

    Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Gupta S4 papers · 2025

    Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Iraqi FA4 papers · 2026

    Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Latchford A4 papers · 2025

    The St Mark's Centre for Familial Intestinal Cancer, St Mark's Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, 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. 2 observational studies did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial.

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.

low 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.

See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.

Observational and natural-history studies

2 observational studies match this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

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 2026-07-29

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 Juvenile polyposis syndrome — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

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.

("Juvenile polyposis syndrome" OR "Juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis" OR "Juvenile intestinal polyposis" OR "juvenile multiple polyps syndrome" OR "juvenile polyposis" OR "polyposis, juvenile intestinal") OR ("BMPR1A" OR "BMPR1A syndrome" OR "BMPR1A-related" OR "ENG syndrome" OR "ENG-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Juvenile polyposis syndrome" OR "Juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis" OR "Juvenile intestinal polyposis" OR "juvenile multiple polyps syndrome" OR "juvenile polyposis" OR "polyposis, juvenile intestinal"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 2 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

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: JIP; JPS

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 2 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (8159) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-26T21:42:14.301Z