RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:370959

Congenital muscular dystrophy with cerebellar involvement

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: CMD with cerebellar involvement · CMD-CRB

Publications

19

26.3th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

213

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare, muscular due to dystroglycanopathy characterized by proximal muscle weakness with a tendency for muscle hypertrophy and pseudohypertrophy, variable cognitive impairment, microcephaly, cerebellar hypoplasia with or without cysts, and other structural brain anomalies.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

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.”

1/6 stages with a signal

Research-stage checklist from open sources (GenCC, literature, Monarch when enriched, ClinicalTrials.gov). Not a prognosis or care recommendation.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    19 matched papers (9 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  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?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

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?

19

19 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.

19 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).

9 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 26.3th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 19 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

213

Distinct author names in 19 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
    Muntoni F5 papers · 2018

    Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Bertini E3 papers · 2018

    Bambino Gesu' Children's Research Hospital, Rome, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Brown SC3 papers · 2012

    Department of Veterinary Basic Science, Royal Veterinary College, Royal College Street, Camden Town NW1 0TU, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Campbell KP3 papers · 2015

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Neurology, and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    David G3 papers · 1998

    INSERM U289, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Feng L3 papers · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Moore SA3 papers · 2015

    University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Stevanin G3 papers · 1998
    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Torelli S3 papers · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Abbas N2 papers · 1998
    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.

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

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 2026-07-26

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.

"Congenital muscular dystrophy with cerebellar involvement" OR "CMD with cerebellar involvement" OR "CMD-CRB"

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

"Congenital muscular dystrophy with cerebellar involvement" OR "CMD with cerebellar involvement" OR "CMD-CRB"

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

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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 2026-07-27T14:59:00.529Z