RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:620220

Bartter syndrome type 2

low confidenceSubtype of disorder

Also known as: Bartter syndrome type II

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

1,381

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

818

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

KCNJ1

Definitive

Readiness

4/6

Stages with a signal

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (6)

BARTS2 · Bartter disease type 2 · Bartter syndrome caused by mutation in KCNJ1 · Bartter syndrome, type 2 · KCNJ1 Bartter syndrome · hyperprostaglandin E syndrome 2

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.”

4/6 stages with a signal

No matched interventional trial, but a gene association and an animal model are on record — often described as translation-ready / stalled at the clinical step.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — KCNJ1

  2. LiteraturePresent

    1,381 matched papers (733 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    47 HPO annotations (e.g. Increased serum prostaglandin E2; Macrocephaly; Diarrhea) Source

  4. Animal modelPresent

    1 genotype model (Mus musculus) Source

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  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 (KCNJ1).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

47

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0009424

  • Increased serum prostaglandin E2
  • Macrocephaly
  • Diarrhea
  • Polyhydramnios
  • Hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis

Showing 5 of 47 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

1

Model associations linked to this Mondo ID

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

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?

1,381

1,381 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=3967) is 59.

1,381 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).

733 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 106 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

818

Distinct author names in 106 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
    Brodsky JL7 papers · 2025

    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Nguyen NH5 papers · 2024

    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Bockenhauer D4 papers · 2022

    Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Chen X4 papers · 2025

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center of Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Sayer JA4 papers · 2024

    Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Centre for Life, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Devuyst O3 papers · 2022

    Division of Nephrology, Saint-Luc Academic Hospital, Université Catholique Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Dominiczak AF3 papers · 2024

    BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom; and.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Hildebrandt F3 papers · 2018

    Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Kleta R3 papers · 2021

    Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Kleyman TR3 papers · 2024

    Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

    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 11 September 2026 · last trial check 11 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.

low 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 Bartter syndrome 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: Bartter syndrome

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 2026-07-30

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 Bartter syndrome type 2 — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

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.

("Bartter syndrome type 2" OR "Bartter syndrome type II" OR "BARTS2" OR "Bartter disease type 2" OR "Bartter syndrome caused by mutation in KCNJ1" OR "Bartter syndrome, type 2" OR "KCNJ1 Bartter syndrome" OR "hyperprostaglandin E syndrome 2") OR (MESH:"Bartter syndrome, antenatal , type 2") OR ("KCNJ1" OR "KCNJ1 syndrome" OR "KCNJ1-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Bartter syndrome, antenatal , type 2

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

"Bartter syndrome type 2" OR "Bartter syndrome type II" OR "BARTS2" OR "Bartter disease type 2" OR "Bartter syndrome caused by mutation in KCNJ1" OR "Bartter syndrome, type 2" OR "KCNJ1 Bartter syndrome" OR "hyperprostaglandin E syndrome 2" OR "Bartter syndrome, antenatal , type 2"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"Bartter syndrome"

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh; 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
  • Publication count (1381) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T19:09:43.798Z