ORPHA:361
Familial glucocorticoid deficiency
Publications
493
71.1th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
978
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
Familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD) is a group of primary adrenal insufficiencies characterized clinically by hyperpigmentation, , , and recurrent infections, and biochemically by glucocorticoid deficiency without mineralocorticoid deficiency.
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:0008733
- MeSH:C565974
- UMLS:C4054695
- NCIT:C120446
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
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
493 matched papers (238 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedPresent
94 HPO annotations (e.g. Generalized hyperpigmentation; Tall stature; Decreased circulating cortisol level) Source
- Animal modelNot found
No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- 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)
94
Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0008733
- Generalized hyperpigmentation
- Tall stature
- Decreased circulating cortisol level
- Increased circulating ACTH level
- Achalasia
Showing 5 of 94 — open Monarch for the full list.
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.
CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)
No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
493
493 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.
493 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).
238 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 71.1th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 493 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
978
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.
- 01Metherell LA18 papers · 2024
Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Clark AJ12 papers · 2022
Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, UK. a.j.clark@qmul.ac.uk
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Chan LF11 papers · 2022
Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK. l.chan@qmul.ac.uk
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Flück CE7 papers · 2026
Department of Paediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology & Metabolism, Bern University Hospital, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Guasti L5 papers · 2019
Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: l.guasti@qmul.ac.uk.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Hughes CR5 papers · 2014
Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, London EC1M 6BQ, UK, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Salerno M5 papers · 2025
Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Endo-ERN Center for Rare Endocrine Conditions, Naples, Italy.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Achermann JC4 papers · 2022
Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (T.G., Z.A., A.B., S.T.), Marmara University, Istanbul 34899, Turkey; Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (T.G.), University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom; Department of Genetics and Genomic Medicine (F.B., J.S., J.C.A.), University College London Institute of Child Health, University College London, London WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (N.S., F.B., B.K.A., Z.Y.A.), Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34452 Istanbul, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (M.N.O., H.D.), Diyarbakir Children's Hospital, 21100 Diyarbakir, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (Z.A., S.Y.A.), Dr Sami Ulus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Children's Health and Disease Training and Research Hospital, 06100 Ankara, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (S.D., S.O.), Ege University, 35040 Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (A.B., E.D.), Gazi University, 06550 Ankara, Turkey; Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic (A.G., M.Y.), Goztepe Educational and Research Hospital, 34810 Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Pediatrics (A.G.), Amasya University Medical Faculty, 05189 Amasya, Turkey; Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic (K.D.), Dr Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (A.A.), Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (M.B.), Konya Training and Research Hospital, 42100 Konya, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (O.T.), Uludag University, 16059 Bursa, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (G.C.), Eylul University, 35210 Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (B.Y.), Cukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (T.A.), Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Education and Research Hospital, 34303 Istanbul, Turkey; Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Buonocore F4 papers · 2022
Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (T.G., Z.A., A.B., S.T.), Marmara University, Istanbul 34899, Turkey; Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (T.G.), University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom; Department of Genetics and Genomic Medicine (F.B., J.S., J.C.A.), University College London Institute of Child Health, University College London, London WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (N.S., F.B., B.K.A., Z.Y.A.), Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34452 Istanbul, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (M.N.O., H.D.), Diyarbakir Children's Hospital, 21100 Diyarbakir, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (Z.A., S.Y.A.), Dr Sami Ulus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Children's Health and Disease Training and Research Hospital, 06100 Ankara, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (S.D., S.O.), Ege University, 35040 Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (A.B., E.D.), Gazi University, 06550 Ankara, Turkey; Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic (A.G., M.Y.), Goztepe Educational and Research Hospital, 34810 Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Pediatrics (A.G.), Amasya University Medical Faculty, 05189 Amasya, Turkey; Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic (K.D.), Dr Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (A.A.), Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (M.B.), Konya Training and Research Hospital, 42100 Konya, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (O.T.), Uludag University, 16059 Bursa, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (G.C.), Eylul University, 35210 Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (B.Y.), Cukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey; Clinics of Pediatric Endocrinology (T.A.), Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Education and Research Hospital, 34303 Istanbul, Turkey; Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Cappa M4 papers · 2025
Unit of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165, Rome, Italy.
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.
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 0 · after dedupe 0 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 0 · 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).
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 Familial glucocorticoid deficiency — 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.
"Familial glucocorticoid deficiency"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Familial glucocorticoid deficiency"
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 multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-26T13:33:46.244Z