RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:717812

12q24.31 microdeletion syndrome

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Del(12)(q24.31) · Deletion 12q24.31 · Monosomy 12q24.31

Publications

15

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

197

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

Orphanet entry

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

    15 matched papers (11 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?

15

15 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.

15 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).

11 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 15 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

197

Distinct author names in 15 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
    Alders M3 papers · 2026

    Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: m.alders@amsterdamumc.nl.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Kim HG3 papers · 2023

    Neurological Disorders Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Kim CH2 papers · 2022

    Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Mannens MMAM2 papers · 2023

    Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Matsumoto N2 papers · 2023

    Department of Human Genetics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Oegema R2 papers · 2026

    Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Electronic address: r.oegema@umcutrecht.nl.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Sadikovic B2 papers · 2023

    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Verspeeten Clinical Genome Centre, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: sadikovic@lhsc.on.ca.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Abou Ghoch J1 paper · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Agolini E1 paper · 2023

    Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Translational Cytogenomics Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Ahimaz P1 paper · 2023

    Division of Clinical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY.

    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.

low 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.

"12q24.31 microdeletion syndrome" OR "Del(12)(q24.31)" OR "Deletion 12q24.31" OR "Monosomy 12q24.31"

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

"12q24.31 microdeletion syndrome" OR "Del(12)(q24.31)" OR "Deletion 12q24.31" OR "Monosomy 12q24.31"

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

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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
  • No Orphanet definition and no Mondo IDs — likely taxonomy scaffolding; confidence capped at low

Ingested 2026-07-27T21:15:05.866Z