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ORPHA:55654

Hypotrichosis simplex

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Hereditary hypotrichosis simplex

Publications

445

83.7th percentile

Trials

1

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,293

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Hypotrichosis simplex (HS) or hypotrichosis simplex (HHS) is characterized by reduced pilosity over the scalp and body (with sparse, thin, and short hair) in the absence of other anomalies.

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.

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

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    445 matched papers (278 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 trialPresent

    1 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov

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?

445

445 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.

445 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).

278 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 83.7th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 445 · MeSH hits: 6

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,293

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Betz RC13 papers · 2022

    Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine and University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: regina.betz@uni-bonn.de.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Wang J8 papers · 2026

    Department of Fundamental and Community Nursing, School of Nursing, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211166, Jiangsu, China. wangjienjmu@126.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Li M7 papers · 2026

    Laboratory for Reproductive Immunology, Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200080, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Wang X7 papers · 2026

    Institute for Forest Resources and Environment of Guizhou, Key Laboratory of Forest Cultivation in Plateau Mountain of Guizhou Province, College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Nöthen MM5 papers · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Pasternack SM5 papers · 2013

    Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Wang Y5 papers · 2026

    Department of Pediatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, # 107 Wenhuaxi Road, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Zhang X5 papers · 2026

    Department of Pediatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, # 107 Wenhuaxi Road, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Zhang Y5 papers · 2026

    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing; Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Huadong Research Institute for Medicine and Biotechnics, Nanjing, R.P.China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Cesarato N4 papers · 2022

    Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine & University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

1

interventional trials for this specific condition

1 interventional trial matched this specific condition name; none in our sample are currently recruiting.

Data as of 27 July 2026

1 interventional trial — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 76.8th percentile).

medium confidence · 76.8th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

1 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

No currently recruiting studies in the matched set. Open the same search on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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.

"Hypotrichosis simplex" OR "Hereditary hypotrichosis simplex"

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MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Hypotrichosis simplex

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

"Hypotrichosis simplex" OR "Hereditary hypotrichosis simplex"

Interventional trials matched via: both (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 1 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh; with hits: phrase, mesh

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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
  • Publication count (445) is high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — confidence capped at medium

Ingested 2026-07-27T00:57:51.976Z