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ORPHA:85186

Endosteal sclerosis-cerebellar hypoplasia syndrome

medium confidenceDisorder

Publications

620

83.4th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

39

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

POLR3B

Definitive

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (4)

HLD8 · POLR3B leukodystrophy · endosteal sclerosis-cerebellar hypoplasia syndrome · leukodystrophy caused by mutation in POLR3B

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.”

3/6 stages with a signal

No matched interventional trial; the gene is known and literature exists — preclinical or natural-history work may still be the practical next step.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — POLR3B

  2. LiteraturePresent

    620 matched papers (508 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    38 HPO annotations (e.g. Delayed eruption of teeth; Intellectual disability; Oligodontia) 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?

Yes — we know a specific gene responsible (POLR3B).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

38

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0013722

  • Delayed eruption of teeth
  • Intellectual disability
  • Oligodontia
  • Cerebellar vermis atrophy
  • Global developmental delay

Showing 5 of 38 — 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?

620

620 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.

620 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).

508 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 83.4th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 6 · MeSH hits: 3

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

39

Distinct author names in 9 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
    Badonyi M2 papers · 2025

    MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. mihaly.badonyi@ed.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Marsh JA2 papers · 2025

    MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. joseph.marsh@ed.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Abeleira-Pazos MT1 paper · 2022

    Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Alasmar D1 paper · 2023

    Pediatric Department, Damascus University Damascus, Syria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Arriagada-Vargas C1 paper · 2022

    Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Atiskova Y1 paper · 2024

    Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Bettinger CM1 paper · 2024

    Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Bhat AM1 paper · 2016

    From the Jules Stein Eye Institute, Geffen School of Medicine.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Bhat SP1 paper · 2016

    From the Jules Stein Eye Institute, Geffen School of Medicine, Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 Molecular Biology Institute and bhat@jsei.ucla.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Bley AE1 paper · 2024

    Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.

    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.

medium 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 Endosteal sclerosis-cerebellar hypoplasia syndrome — 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.

("Endosteal sclerosis-cerebellar hypoplasia syndrome" OR "POLR3B leukodystrophy" OR "leukodystrophy caused by mutation in POLR3B") OR (MESH:"Cerebellar hypoplasia with endosteal sclerosis") OR ("POLR3B" OR "POLR3B syndrome" OR "POLR3B-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Cerebellar hypoplasia with endosteal sclerosis

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

"Endosteal sclerosis-cerebellar hypoplasia syndrome" OR "POLR3B leukodystrophy" OR "leukodystrophy caused by mutation in POLR3B" OR "Cerebellar hypoplasia with endosteal sclerosis"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh; with hits: phrase, mesh

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: HLD8

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

Ingested 2026-07-27T02:47:54.760Z