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ORPHA:439224

ALECT2 amyloidosis

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Leukocyte chemotactic factor-2 amyloidosis

Publications

133

67.2th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

644

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare, systemic amyloidosis characterized by slowly renal disease presenting with proteinuria, hypertension and decreased glomerular filtration rate leading to renal failure. Histology reveals amyloid deposits of leukocyte chemotactic factor-2 protein in the renal cortical interstitium, tubular basement membranes, glomeruli and the vessel walls. Extra-renal deposits can be seen in the liver, lungs, spleen and adrenal glands.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

LECT2 amyloidosis · leukocyte chemotactic factor-2 amyloidosis

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 specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    133 matched papers (105 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 trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 369 for broader category amyloidosis

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?

133

133 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=5449) is 41.

133 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).

105 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 67.2th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 133 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

644

Distinct author names in 133 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
    Theis JD12 papers · 2024

    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Nasr SH11 papers · 2025

    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Vrana JA11 papers · 2024

    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Sethi S10 papers · 2024

    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. sethi.sanjeev@mayo.edu

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Dasari S8 papers · 2024

    Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Dogan A8 papers · 2017

    Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065; email: dogana@mskcc.org.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Leung N8 papers · 2024

    Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Wang S8 papers · 2026

    Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Pathological Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Larsen CP6 papers · 2021

    Arkana Laboratories, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Dispenzieri A5 papers · 2024

    Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 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). 369 trials are registered for amyloidosis, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

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.

369 interventional trials matched amyloidosis, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: amyloidosis

369

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

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.

"ALECT2 amyloidosis" OR "Leukocyte chemotactic factor-2 amyloidosis" OR "LECT2 amyloidosis"

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

"ALECT2 amyloidosis" OR "Leukocyte chemotactic factor-2 amyloidosis" OR "LECT2 amyloidosis"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"amyloidosis"

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 2026-07-27T16:17:59.366Z