ORPHA:468699
SLC39A8-CDG
Also known as: CDG syndrome type IIn · CDG-IIn · CDG2N · Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type IIn · Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 2n · Congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIn · SLC39A8 deficiency
Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).
Publications
100
66th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
710
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
SLC39A8
Definitive
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare disorder of glycosylation characterized by onset of global , severe , , and variable additional features including short stature, cranial asymmetry, , strabismus, recurrent infections, and osteopenia, among others. Laboratory analysis reveals decreased blood levels of zinc and manganese, as well as an abnormal serum transferrin glycosylation pattern with decreased tetrasialo- and increased asialo-, monosialo-, disialo, and trisialo-transferrin, consistent with a type II disorder of glycosylation. Brain imaging shows cerebellar and/or cerebral atrophy.
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:0014746
- OMIM:616721
- UMLS:C4225234
Additional Mondo synonyms (4)
carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type IIn · congenital disorder of glycosylation type 2n · congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIn · congenital disorder of glycosylation, type IIn
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
Definitive — SLC39A8
- LiteraturePresent
100 matched papers (98 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 (SLC39A8).
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?
100
100 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.
100 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).
98 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 66th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 100 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
710
Distinct author names in 100 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.
- 01Morava E11 papers · 2024
Metabolic Center, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven B-3000, Belgium.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Park JH10 papers · 2025
Department of General Pediatrics, Metabolic Diseases, University Children's Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Jaeken J9 papers · 2026
Metabolic Center, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven B-3000, Belgium.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Ferreira CR7 papers · 2026
Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Marquardt T7 papers · 2021
Department of General Pediatrics, Metabolic Diseases, University Children's Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Freeze 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 - 07Aschner M4 papers · 2025
Laboratory of Ecobiomonitoring and Quality Control, Yaroslavl State University, 150003 Yaroslavl, Russia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Bowman AB4 papers · 2025
School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Cummings RD4 papers · 2022
National Center for Functional Glycomics, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Francisco R4 papers · 2023
UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
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.
medium 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.
"SLC39A8-CDG" OR "CDG syndrome type IIn" OR "CDG-IIn" OR "CDG2N" OR "Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type IIn" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 2n" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type 2n" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIn" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type IIn" OR "SLC39A8 deficiency" OR "congenital disorder of glycosylation, type IIn" OR "congenital disorder of the glycosylation, type IIn"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"SLC39A8-CDG" OR "CDG syndrome type IIn" OR "CDG-IIn" OR "CDG2N" OR "Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type IIn" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 2n" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type 2n" OR "Congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIn" OR "Congenital disorder of the glycosylation type IIn" OR "SLC39A8 deficiency" OR "congenital disorder of glycosylation, type IIn" OR "congenital disorder of the glycosylation, type IIn" OR "SLC39A8"
Recall-expansion terms: SLC39A8
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 short or not clearly distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T17:05:07.454Z