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ORPHA:90186

Meige disease

medium confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Hereditary lymphedema type II · Meige lymphedema

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

87

41.6th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

357

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Meige disease is a frequent form of late-onset, primary lymphedema characterized by lower limb lymphedema typically developing during puberty.

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

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (3)

LMPH2 · hereditary lymphedema type II · late-onset primary lymphedema

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.”

2/6 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

    87 matched papers (31 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    26 HPO annotations (e.g. Lymphedema; Atypical scarring of skin; Recurrent skin infections) 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?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

26

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0007920

  • Lymphedema
  • Atypical scarring of skin
  • Recurrent skin infections
  • Lymph node hypoplasia
  • Absence of lymph node germinal center

Showing 5 of 26 — 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?

87

87 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=3967) is 59.

87 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).

31 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 41.6th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 87 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

357

Distinct author names in 87 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
    Vikkula M7 papers · 2024

    Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, de Duve Institute, Center for Vascular Anomalies, Division of Plastic Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Walloon Excellence in Lifesciences and Biotechnology, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Brice G6 papers · 2008

    Department of Cardiological Sciences, St George's Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Mansour S6 papers · 2020

    Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK smansour@sgul.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Mortimer P6 papers · 2020

    Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Jeffery S5 papers · 2020

    Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Sarfarazi M5 papers · 2008
    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Bell R4 papers · 2008
    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Boon LM4 papers · 2024

    Department of Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Burnand K4 papers · 2008
    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Child AH4 papers · 2003
    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. 1 observational study did — shown below because natural-history and cohort work can be an important step toward a trial.

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.

Observational and natural-history studies

1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as recruiting.

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

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)

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 Meige disease — 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.

"Meige disease" OR "Hereditary lymphedema type II" OR "Meige lymphedema" OR "LMPH2" OR "late-onset primary lymphedema"

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MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Lymphedema, Hereditary, II

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

"Meige disease" OR "Hereditary lymphedema type II" OR "Meige lymphedema" OR "LMPH2" OR "late-onset primary lymphedema" OR "Lymphedema, Hereditary, II"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

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

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Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is short or not clearly distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T03:41:48.028Z