ORPHA:727141
KCNQ1-related isolated congenital long QT syndrome
Also known as: LQTS type 1 · KCNQ1-related Isolated congenital LQTS
Publications
10,903
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
1,266
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
1/6
Stages with a signal
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.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
10,903 matched papers (6,224 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot found
No HPO disease–phenotype associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Animal modelNot found
No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Orphan designationNot found
No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source
- 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)
None returned for this Mondo ID. That often means “not linked under this ID,” not “no clinical features.”
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?
10,903
10,903 papers — among the better-studied rare conditions, though still a fraction of common-disease literature (breast cancer: over 700,000). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.
10,903 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).
6,224 in the last 10 years · low confidence
Phrase hits: 283 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
1,266
Distinct author names in 200 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.
- 01Ackerman MJ16 papers · 2026
Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Division of Heart Rhythm Services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: ackerman.michael@mayo.edu.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Schwartz PJ11 papers · 2025
ERN GUARDHEART members of the European Reference Network for Rare and Low Prevalence Complex Diseases of the Heart (http://guardheart.ern-net.eu) (E.R.B., S.G.P., E.S.-B., P.J.S., A.A.M.W.).
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Wilde AAM11 papers · 2025
Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Crotti L7 papers · 2025
Section of Cardiology, Department of Lung, Blood and Heart, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Horie M7 papers · 2024
Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine Shiga University of Medical Science Ohtsu Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Rydberg A7 papers · 2023
Department of Clinical Sciences, Paediatrics, Umea University, Umeå, Sweden.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Ohno S6 papers · 2024
Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine Shiga University of Medical Science Ohtsu Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Shimizu W6 papers · 2022
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan (W.S.).
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Tester DJ6 papers · 2023
Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Division of Heart Rhythm Services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Zareba W6 papers · 2022
Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY (W.Z.).
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.
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 1 · after dedupe 1 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 1 · 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).
Uncertain / not reviewed (1)
- isrctn·ISRCTN79796233·Recruiting·A clinical trial to investigate how effective a stimulant medication is compared to a non-stimulant medication in patients who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and also have a history of either psychosis or bipolar disorder
skipped — LLM skipped (--skip-llm)
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 KCNQ1-related isolated congenital long QT syndrome — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This 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.
("KCNQ1-related isolated congenital long QT syndrome" OR "LQTS type 1" OR "KCNQ1-related Isolated congenital LQTS") OR ("KCNQ1" OR "KCNQ1 syndrome" OR "KCNQ1-related")ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"KCNQ1-related isolated congenital long QT syndrome" OR "LQTS type 1" OR "KCNQ1-related Isolated congenital LQTS"
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
- No Orphanet definition and no Mondo IDs — likely taxonomy scaffolding; confidence capped at low
Ingested 2026-07-27T21:26:24.581Z