RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:631079

Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 84

high confidenceDisorder

Publications

8

22.8th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

87

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

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.

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

SPG84 · autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 84

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

Research-stage checklist from open sources (GenCC, literature, Monarch when enriched, ClinicalTrials.gov). Not a prognosis or care recommendation.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    8 matched papers (6 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    22 HPO annotations (e.g. Knee flexion contracture; Ankle flexion contracture; Tip-toe gait) Source

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  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?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

22

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0858989

  • Knee flexion contracture
  • Ankle flexion contracture
  • Tip-toe gait
  • Spastic paraplegia
  • Urinary urgency

Showing 5 of 22 — 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 2026-07-29

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?

8

8 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=3967) is 59.

8 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).

6 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 22.8th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 8 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

87

Distinct author names in 8 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
    Aguilera-Albesa S1 paper · 2023

    Paediatric Neurology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Universitario de Navarra, Navarrabiomed, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Anderson EN1 paper · 2025

    Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Argente-Escrig H1 paper · 2023

    Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, 46012 València, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Baple EL1 paper · 1993

    University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Bech JJ1 paper · 2025

    Proteomics Unit, Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Beland B1 paper · 2025

    Department of Biological Sciences, International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad, Pakistan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Casas J1 paper · 2025

    RUBAM, Department of Biological Chemistry, IQAC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain; Liver and Digestive Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEREHD) ISCIII, 28029 Madrid, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Casasnovas C1 paper · 2025

    Neurometabolic Diseases Laboratory, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Neuromuscular Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Cheong PL1 paper · 2024

    From the Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics Group (J.M.P., E.L.M., A.R., G.R.), Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia; Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (J.M.P., E.L.M., A.R., G.R.), Nedlands; Royal Perth Hospital (P.J.L.); Sydney Medical School (K.R.K., P.L.C.), Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown; Garvan Institute of Medical Research (K.R.K.), Darlinghurst; Molecular Medicine Laboratory (K.R.K., M.S., P.L.C.), Concord Repatriation General Hospital, NSW Health Pathology; Department of Neurology (K.R.K.), Concord Repatriation General Hospital; and School of Medical Sciences (M.S.), University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Chung W1 paper · 2025

    Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

    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.

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.

See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.

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 Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 84 — 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.

"Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 84" OR "SPG84"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 84" OR "SPG84"

Study-type breakdown: 0 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

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 2026-07-27T19:25:42.847Z