RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:444013

Combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 23

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: COXPD23

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

16

33.9th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

124

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

GTPBP3

Definitive

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare disease characterized by early onset of hypertrophic and variable neurologic symptoms including global , , , visual impairment, and . Lactic is present in all patients. Muscle biopsy usually shows decreased activity of complexes I and IV. Brain imaging may reveal variable abnormal signal intensities in the thalamus, basal ganglia, and/or brain stem.

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 (3)

GTPBP3 combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency · combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency caused by mutation in GTPBP3 · combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency type 23

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.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — GTPBP3

  2. LiteraturePresent

    16 matched papers (16 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?

Yes — we know a specific gene responsible (GTPBP3).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

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?

16

16 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.

16 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).

16 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 33.9th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 16 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

124

Distinct author names in 16 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
    Yang Y3 papers · 2025

    Department of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China. organic.acid@126.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Zhang Y2 papers · 2026

    Department of Neonatal Medicine, Xin-Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Ahmed RE1 paper · 2021

    Division of Regenerative Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke 329-0498, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Akar HT1 paper · 2025

    Department of Pediatric Metabolism, TC Saglik Bakanligi Ankara Etlik Sehir Hastanesi, Ankara, Turkey.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Akduman H1 paper · 2025

    Department of Neonatology, TC Saglik Bakanligi Ankara Etlik Sehir Hastanesi, Ankara, Turkey.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    An Y1 paper · 2023

    Human Phenome Institute, Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai 201203, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Anastasopoulou K1 paper · 2025

    Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Anastogianni A1 paper · 2025

    Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Anzai T1 paper · 2021

    Division of Regenerative Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke 329-0498, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Aycan N1 paper · 2025

    Department of Neonatology, Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey.

    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.

"Combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 23" OR "COXPD23" OR "GTPBP3 combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency" OR "combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency caused by mutation in GTPBP3" OR "combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency type 23"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 23" OR "COXPD23" OR "GTPBP3 combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency" OR "combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency caused by mutation in GTPBP3" OR "combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency type 23" OR "GTPBP3" OR "combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency" OR "mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation disorder"

Recall-expansion terms: GTPBP3, combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency, mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation disorder

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

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; 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 2026-07-27T16:28:03.848Z