RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:2966

Properdin deficiency

medium confidenceDisorder

Publications

577

70.3th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,282

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

CFP

Strong

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Properdin deficiency is a rare, , primary immunodeficiency due to a complement cascade protein anomaly characterized by significantly increased susceptibility to Neisseria species infections. It only affects males, typically presenting with severe or fulminant meningococcal disease.

How rare: 1-9 / 1 000 000 — roughly one to nine people per million. In a city the size of Kolkata, perhaps a few dozen.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

properdin deficiency, X-linked · properdin deficiency, X-linked, X-linked recessive

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

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 — CFP

  2. LiteraturePresent

    577 matched papers (228 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    2 HPO annotations (e.g. Dysfunctional alternative complement pathway; Abnormal circulating properdin concentration) Source

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  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 (CFP).

GenCC classification: Strong.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

2

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0010713

  • Dysfunctional alternative complement pathway
  • Abnormal circulating properdin concentration

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

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?

577

577 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=3967) is 59.

577 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).

228 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 70.3th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 544 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,282

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
    Stover CM8 papers · 2021

    School of Biological Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Wang Y8 papers · 2025

    Department of Otorhinolaryngology-HNS, Second Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, China ; Departments of Otolaryngology-HNS and Genetics, and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America ; Transformative Otology and Neuroscience Center, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Ferreira VP4 papers · 2023

    Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Schwaeble WJ4 papers · 2017

    Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Stover C4 papers · 2019

    Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Kishore U3 papers · 2020

    College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Marchbank KJ3 papers · 2026

    Complement Therapeutics Research Group and Newcastle University Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Meri S3 papers · 2026

    Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Translational Immunology Research Program (TRIMM), University of Helsinki and HUSLAB, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, hus.fi.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Miwa T3 papers · 2018

    Departments of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Morishita E3 papers · 2026

    Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Japan.

    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.

medium 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.

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 22 · after dedupe 22 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 22 · 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 (22)

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 Properdin deficiency — 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.

("Properdin deficiency" OR "properdin deficiency, X-linked" OR "properdin deficiency, X-linked, X-linked recessive") OR ("CFP syndrome" OR "CFP-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Properdin deficiency" OR "properdin deficiency, X-linked" OR "properdin deficiency, X-linked, X-linked recessive"

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

Ingested 2026-07-26T21:49:55.173Z