ORPHA:457378
Complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia
Also known as: Complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia, Symoens-Barnes-Gistelinck type
Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).
Publications
6
19.9th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
54
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
TAPT1
Strong
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare, genetic, primary bone with decreased bone density characterized by fetal lethality, severe hypomineralization of the entire skeleton, barrel shaped thorax with short ribs, multiple intrauterine fractures of ribs and long bones, ascites, pleural effusion, and ventriculomegaly. Variable developmental anomalies affecting the brain, lungs, and kidneys have also been associated.
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:0014821
- OMIM:616897
- UMLS:C4225162
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 — TAPT1
- LiteraturePresent
6 matched papers (5 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 (TAPT1).
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?
6
6 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.
6 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).
5 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 19.9th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 6 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
54
Distinct author names in 6 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.
- 01Al-Kouatly HB1 paper · 2021
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Bai Y1 paper · 2022
Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs (Ocean University of China), Chinese Ministry of Education, and School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Bălgrădean M1 paper · 2021
Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology, Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children 'Maria Skłodowska Curie', 077120 Bucharest, Romania.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Barnes AM1 paper · 2015
Bone and Extracellular Matrix Branch, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Berger SI1 paper · 2021
Center for Genetic Medicine Research & Rare Disease Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. sberger@cnmc.org.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Biervliet M1 paper · 2015
Center for Medical Genetics, Brussels University Hospital, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Budișteanu M1 paper · 2021
Department of Pediatric Neurology, 'Prof. Dr. Alexandru Obregia' Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry, 041914 Bucharest, Romania.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Coucke PJ1 paper · 2015
Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: paul.coucke@ugent.be.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09D'hondt S1 paper · 2015
Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10De Backer J1 paper · 2015
Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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 2026-07-26This 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.
"Complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia" OR "Complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia, Symoens-Barnes-Gistelinck type"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia" OR "Complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia, Symoens-Barnes-Gistelinck type" OR "TAPT1"
Recall-expansion terms: TAPT1
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
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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 2026-07-27T16:51:16.315Z