ORPHA:369867
Autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type C
Also known as: RI-CMT type C
Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).
Publications
17
30.9th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
116
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
PLEKHG5
Strong
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare subtype of intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease characterized by childhood to adulthood-onset of , moderate to severe, predominantly distal, mostly lower limb muscle weakness and atrophy, foot deformities (including pes cavus and hammer toes), absent deep tendon reflexes and distal sensory loss associated with decreased motor and sensory nerve conduction velocities and features of both demyelinating and axonal on sural nerve biopsy.
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.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0014154
- OMIM:615376
- UMLS:C3809309
Additional Mondo synonyms (7)
CMTRIC · Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease caused by mutation in PLEKHG5 · Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease recessive intermediate type C · Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, recessive Intermediate type C · PLEKHG5 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease · RI-CMTC · autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type C
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 — PLEKHG5
- LiteraturePresent
17 matched papers (13 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 (PLEKHG5).
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?
17
17 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.
17 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).
13 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 30.9th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 17 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
116
Distinct author names in 17 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.
- 01Lefranc G2 papers · 2022
Institut de Génétique Humaine, UMR 9002 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, France.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Tomaselli PJ2 papers · 2026
Department of Neurosciences and Behaviour Sciences, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Ajroud K1 paper · 2022
Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04
- 05Alame S1 paper · 2022
Department of Neuropediatrics, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Badia BML1 paper · 2023
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Battaloğlu E1 paper · 2022
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Beltran S1 paper · 2020
Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG)-Centro de Regulación Genómica (CRG), Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: sergi.beltran@cnag.crg.eu.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Bernal S1 paper · 2021
Genetics Department, IIB Sant Pau, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, 08041, Spain.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Bigio EH1 paper · 2022
Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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.
Broader category autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth 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: autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth 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.
"Autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type C" OR "RI-CMT type C" OR "CMTRIC" OR "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease recessive intermediate type C" OR "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, recessive Intermediate type C" OR "PLEKHG5 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease" OR "RI-CMTC"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type C" OR "RI-CMT type C" OR "CMTRIC" OR "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease recessive intermediate type C" OR "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, recessive Intermediate type C" OR "PLEKHG5 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease" OR "RI-CMTC" OR "PLEKHG5"
Recall-expansion terms: PLEKHG5
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"autosomal recessive intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease"
Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase
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Synonyms dropped by stoplist: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease caused by mutation in PLEKHG5
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 2026-07-27T14:49:09.754Z