RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:57

Glycogen storage disease due to aldolase A deficiency

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: GSD due to aldolase A deficiency · GSD type 12 · GSD type XII · Glycogen storage disease type 12 · Glycogen storage disease type XII · Glycogenosis due to aldolase A deficiency · Glycogenosis type 12 · Glycogenosis type XII

Publications

14

26.3th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

90

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

ALDOA

Definitive

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Glycogen storage disease due to aldolase A deficiency is an extremely rare glycogen storage disease characterized by hemolytic anemia with or without or intellectual deficit. can be severe enough to result in fatal rhabdomyolysis in some patients. A family with episodic rhabdomyolysis (triggered by fever) without hemolytic anemia has recently been reported.

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (6)

glycogen storage disease due to aldolase A deficiency · glycogen storage disease type 12 · glycogen storage disease type XII · glycogenosis due to aldolase A deficiency · glycogenosis type 12 · glycogenosis type XII

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 — ALDOA

  2. LiteraturePresent

    14 matched papers (9 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 (ALDOA).

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?

14

14 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.

14 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).

9 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 26.3th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 14 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

90

Distinct author names in 14 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
    Adeva-Andany MM1 paper · 2016

    Nephrology Division, Hospital General Juan Cardona, c/ Pardo Bazán s/n, 15406 Ferrol, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Agostini F1 paper · 2026

    Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Biochemistry, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, 10117, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Ameneiros-Rodríguez E1 paper · 2016

    Nephrology Division, Hospital General Juan Cardona, c/ Pardo Bazán s/n, 15406 Ferrol, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Anastasopoulou C1 paper · 2026

    Jefferson Einstein Medical Center

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Anikster Y1 paper · 2017

    Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Aran A1 paper · 2017

    Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Balaska K1 paper · 2017

    Department of Pathology, 2Department of Radiotherapy/Oncology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Bar-Yosef O1 paper · 2017

    Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Becker J1 paper · 2015

    Department of Neurology, HSL, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. jeffersonbecker@hotmail.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Bruno C1 paper · 1998
    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. 1 observational study did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial.

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.

Observational and natural-history studies

1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched 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.

"Glycogen storage disease due to aldolase A deficiency" OR "GSD due to aldolase A deficiency" OR "GSD type 12" OR "GSD type XII" OR "Glycogen storage disease type 12" OR "Glycogen storage disease type XII" OR "Glycogenosis due to aldolase A deficiency" OR "Glycogenosis type 12" OR "Glycogenosis type XII"

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

"Glycogen storage disease due to aldolase A deficiency" OR "GSD due to aldolase A deficiency" OR "GSD type 12" OR "GSD type XII" OR "Glycogen storage disease type 12" OR "Glycogen storage disease type XII" OR "Glycogenosis due to aldolase A deficiency" OR "Glycogenosis type 12" OR "Glycogenosis type XII" OR "ALDOA"

Recall-expansion terms: ALDOA

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

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase, recall-expansion

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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 2026-07-26T12:15:52.095Z