ORPHA:557064
Neonatal epileptic encephalopathy due to glutaminase deficiency
Publications
74
49.9th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
108
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
GLS
Strong
Readiness
3/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare genetic neurometabolic disease characterized by early refractory , , and respiratory failure. Brain imaging reveals simplified gyral pattern of the frontal lobes, white matter abnormalities, gliosis and volume loss in various brain regions, and vasogenic edema. Serum glutamine levels are significantly elevated. Death occurs within weeks after birth.
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:0032678
- OMIM:618328
- UMLS:C5193030
Additional Mondo synonyms (5)
DEE71 · EIEE71 · developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 71 · epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 71 · neonatal epileptic encephalopathy due to glutaminase deficiency
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.”
3/6 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 — GLS
- LiteraturePresent
74 matched papers (59 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedPresent
10 HPO annotations (e.g. EEG with burst suppression; Seizure; Cheyne-Stokes respiration) Source
- Animal modelNot found
No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Orphan designationNot found
No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source
- 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 (GLS).
GenCC classification: Strong.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
10
Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0032678
- EEG with burst suppression
- Seizure
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration
- Hypotonia
- Gliosis
Showing 5 of 10 — open Monarch for the full list.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.
Monarch fetch 2026-07-27
Therapies
Designations, candidates, and chemicals
FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.
Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)
No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.
Open Targets candidates
No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.
CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)
No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
74
74 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=3967) is 59.
74 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).
59 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 49.9th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 12 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
108
Distinct author names in 12 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.
- 01Achanta U1 paper · 2024
Department of Paediatrics SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre Chengalpattu India.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Adani F1 paper · 2023
Gruppo Ricicla Labs., Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali-Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia (DiSAA), Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milano, Italy. Fabrizio.Adani@unimi.it.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Agha Gholizadeh M1 paper · 2024
Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Ahimaz PR1 paper · 2021
Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Aiyappan SK1 paper · 2024
Department of Radiology SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre Chengalpattu India.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Alagoz M1 paper · 2020
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Genome Centre, Biruni University, Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, Turkey.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Alizadeh F1 paper · 2021
Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Assmann B1 paper · 2026
Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Department I, Division of Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Badmann S1 paper · 2026
Institute of Human Genetics, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Ballhausen D1 paper · 2026
Pediatric Metabolic Unit, Pediatrics, Woman-Mother-Child Department, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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 9 September 2026 · last trial check 9 September 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (5501 of 7126). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
high confidence · 38.6th 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.
Broader category glutaminase deficiency also has no matched interventional trial. See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.
Broader category: glutaminase deficiency
0
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Parent-category matching found a broader label but no interventional trials under it. How we count trials.
Other registries (secondary)
Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.
raw 0 · after dedupe 0 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 0 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-27
Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri
No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).
Where to find support
Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.
Orphanet entry for Neonatal epileptic encephalopathy due to glutaminase deficiency — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.
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.
("Neonatal epileptic encephalopathy due to glutaminase deficiency" OR "DEE71" OR "EIEE71" OR "developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 71" OR "epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 71") OR ("GLS syndrome" OR "GLS-related")ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Neonatal epileptic encephalopathy due to glutaminase deficiency" OR "DEE71" OR "EIEE71" OR "developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 71" OR "epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 71"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"glutaminase deficiency"
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 2026-07-26T02:16:19.953Z