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ORPHA:617294

Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: TAPS

Publications

534

88.6th percentile

Trials

2

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

888

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare disorder related to monochorionic twin pregnancy characterized by unbalanced inter-twin blood transfusion with subsequent anemia in the donor and polycythemia in the recipient twin. Amniotic fluid abnormalities are absent. Doppler measurement of middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocities reveals significantly discordant velocities. The condition can occur spontaneously or complicate incomplete fetoscopic laser surgery.

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.

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

    534 matched papers (419 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

    2 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (1 recruiting in sample)

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?

534

534 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

534 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).

419 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 88.6th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 534 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

888

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
    Lopriore E32 papers · 2026

    Department of Neonatology, Leiden University Medical Center, J7-48, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands. e.lopriore@lumc.nl.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Slaghekke F28 papers · 2026

    Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Tollenaar LSA21 papers · 2026

    Division of Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Khalil A19 papers · 2026

    Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's Hospital and St George's, University of London, London, UK. akhalil@sgul.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Lewi L16 papers · 2026

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. liesbeth.lewi@uzleuven.be.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Haak MC12 papers · 2026

    Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Groene SG11 papers · 2026

    Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Willem-Alexander Children's Hospital, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. Electronic address: S.G.Groene@lumc.nl.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    van Klink JMM11 papers · 2026

    Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Willem-Alexander Children's Hospital, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Baschat AA9 papers · 2026

    The Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy, Baltimore, MD, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Hecher K9 papers · 2026

    Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

2

interventional trials for this specific condition

2 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 1 currently recruiting in our sample.

Data as of 27 July 2026

2 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 82.4th percentile).

medium confidence · 82.4th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

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

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.

"Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence"

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

Study-type breakdown: 2 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: TAPS

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 1 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T19:05:18.261Z