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ORPHA:728432

PLA2G6-related neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset · Juvenile PLAN · Atypical neuroaxonal dystrophy · ANAD · Juvenile phospholipase A2-associated neurodegeneration

Publications

2,674

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

817

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

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

    2,674 matched papers (1,897 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot found

    No HPO disease–phenotype associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  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)

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?

2,674

2,674 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.

2,674 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).

1,897 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 119 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

817

Distinct author names in 119 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
    Hayflick SJ8 papers · 2025

    Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, OR Health & Science University, Portland 97239, USA; Department of Paediatrics, OR Health & Science University, Portland 97239, USA; Department of Neurology, OR Health & Science University, Portland 97239, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Kurian MA8 papers · 2025

    Department of Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK; Neurosciences Unit, UCL-Institute of Child Health, London, UK. Electronic address: manju.kurian@ucl.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Hogarth P5 papers · 2025

    Departments of Molecular and Medical Genetics and Neurology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, United States.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Gregory A4 papers · 2025

    Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA. gregorya@ohsu.edu

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Bhatia KP3 papers · 2017

    Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders UCL Institute of Neurology London United Kingdom.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Hardy J3 papers · 2013
    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Hope A3 papers · 2025

    The INADcure Foundation, Fairfield, NJ, 07004, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Lin CH3 papers · 2023

    Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Pal PK3 papers · 2024

    Department of Neurology National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS) Bengaluru India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Panwala L3 papers · 2025

    The INADcure Foundation, Fairfield, NJ, 07004, 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.

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 22 · after dedupe 22 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 22 · 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 (22)

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 PLA2G6-related neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset — 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.

("PLA2G6-related neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset" OR "PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset" OR "Juvenile PLAN" OR "Atypical neuroaxonal dystrophy" OR "Juvenile phospholipase A2-associated neurodegeneration") OR ("PLA2G6" OR "PLA2G6 syndrome" OR "PLA2G6-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"PLA2G6-related neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset" OR "PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration, juvenile-onset" OR "Juvenile PLAN" OR "Atypical neuroaxonal dystrophy" OR "Juvenile phospholipase A2-associated neurodegeneration"

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

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: ANAD

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 1 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • 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 2026-07-27T21:29:06.510Z