RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:674968

Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation disease

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: BDUMP · Paraneoplastic uveal melanocytic hyperplasia

Publications

135

65.1th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

629

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

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.”

1/6 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

    135 matched papers (92 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?

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?

135

135 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=5449) is 41.

135 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).

92 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 65.1th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 135 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

629

Distinct author names in 135 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
    Adamus G4 papers · 2018

    Ocular Immunology Laboratory, Casey Eye Institute, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Miles SL4 papers · 2023

    Department of Biomedical Sciences, Toxicology Research Cluster, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, 1700 Third Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia 25755, United States.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Pulido JS4 papers · 2015

    Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    De Salvo G3 papers · 2025

    Southampton Eye Unit, University Hospital Southampton, 103 Tremona Rd, Southampton, SO16 6HU, UK. gabrielladesalvo@gmail.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Lotery AJ3 papers · 2025

    Southampton Eye Unit, University Hospital Southampton, 103 Tremona Rd, Southampton, SO16 6HU, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Rahimy E3 papers · 2019

    Retina Service, Wills Eye Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Winters JL3 papers · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Afshar F2 papers · 2025

    Southampton Eye Unit, University Hospital Southampton, 103 Tremona Rd, Southampton, SO16 6HU, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Agrawal R2 papers · 2022

    Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, London, EC1V 2PD, UK. rupesh.agrawal@moorfields.nhs.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Androudi S2 papers · 2025

    Department of Ophthalmology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.

    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 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.

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.

"Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation disease" OR "BDUMP" OR "Paraneoplastic uveal melanocytic hyperplasia"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation disease" OR "BDUMP" OR "Paraneoplastic uveal melanocytic hyperplasia"

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 2026-07-27T20:22:28.261Z