RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:370927

SSR4-CDG

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: CDG syndrome type Iy · CDG-Iy · CDG1Y · Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type Iy · Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1y · Congenital disorder of glycosylation type Iy

Publications

675

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

331

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

SSR4

Strong

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

SSR4-CDG is a form of disorders of N-linked glycosylation characterized by neurologic abnormalities (global in language, social skills and fine and gross motor development, , , microcephaly, /), facial dysmorphism (deep set eyes, large ears, hypoplastic vermillion of upper lip, large mouth with widely spaced teeth), feeding problems often due to chewing difficulties and aversion to food with certain textures, , gastrointestinal abnormalities (reflux or vomiting) and strabismus. The disease is caused by mutations in the gene SSR4 (Xq28).

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.

Additional Mondo synonyms (5)

SSR4-congenital disorder of glycosylation · carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type Iy · congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1y · congenital disorder of glycosylation type Iy · congenital disorder of glycosylation, type Iy, 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 — SSR4

  2. LiteraturePresent

    675 matched papers (507 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    50 HPO annotations (e.g. Hypoplasia of the corpus callosum; Intellectual disability; Abnormality of upper lip vermillion) 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 (SSR4).

GenCC classification: Strong.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

50

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0010490

  • Hypoplasia of the corpus callosum
  • Intellectual disability
  • Abnormality of upper lip vermillion
  • Horseshoe kidney
  • Abnormality of the skeletal system

Showing 5 of 50 — 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.

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?

675

675 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.

675 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).

507 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 49 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

331

Distinct author names in 49 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
    Morava E8 papers · 2024

    Metabolic Center, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium. Morava-Kozicz.Eva@MAYO.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Freeze HH5 papers · 2024

    Human Genetics Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: hudson@sbpdiscovery.org.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Ng BG5 papers · 2024

    Human Genetics Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Jaeken J4 papers · 2023

    Metabolic Center, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Francisco R3 papers · 2023

    UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Sarafoglou K3 papers · 2024

    Department of Pediatrics University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital Minneapolis Minnesota USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Abu Bakar N2 papers · 2025

    Department of Neurology, Translational Metabolic Laboratory, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Bamshad MJ2 papers · 2019

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Botzo G2 papers · 2024

    Department of Clinical Genomics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Bruneel A2 papers · 2021

    AP-HP, Biochimie Métabolique et Cellulaire, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.

    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.

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.

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 2026-07-30

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 SSR4-CDG — 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.

("SSR4-CDG" OR "CDG syndrome type Iy" OR "CDG-Iy" OR "CDG1Y" OR "Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type Iy" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1y" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type 1y" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type Iy" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type Iy" OR "SSR4-congenital disorder of glycosylation" OR "SSR4-congenital disorder of the glycosylation" OR "congenital disorder of glycosylation, type Iy, X-linked recessive" OR "congenital disorder of the glycosylation, type Iy, X-linked recessive") OR ("SSR4" OR "SSR4 syndrome" OR "SSR4-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"SSR4-CDG" OR "CDG syndrome type Iy" OR "CDG-Iy" OR "CDG1Y" OR "Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type Iy" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1y" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type 1y" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type Iy" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type Iy" OR "SSR4-congenital disorder of glycosylation" OR "SSR4-congenital disorder of the glycosylation" OR "congenital disorder of glycosylation, type Iy, X-linked recessive" OR "congenital disorder of the glycosylation, type Iy, 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
  • Publication count (675) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T14:57:57.146Z