RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:90652

Otopalatodigital syndrome type 2

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: OPD II syndrome · OPD syndrome 2

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

Publications

6,519

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

218

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

FLNA

Definitive

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A severe form of otopalatodigital syndrome spectrum disorder, and is characterized by facies, severe skeletal affecting the axial and appendicular skeleton, extraskeletal anomalies (including malformations of the brain, heart, genitourinary system, and intestine) and poor survival.

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (3)

OPD 2 syndrome · Otopalatodigital Syndrome Type I and II · otopalatodigital syndrome, type II, X-linked dominant

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 — FLNA

  2. LiteraturePresent

    6,519 matched papers (4,830 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    123 HPO annotations (e.g. Toe syndactyly; Broad face; Undulate clavicle) 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 (FLNA).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

123

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0010571

  • Toe syndactyly
  • Broad face
  • Undulate clavicle
  • Wide anterior fontanel
  • Short metatarsal

Showing 5 of 123 — 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?

6,519

6,519 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.

6,519 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).

4,830 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 26 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

218

Distinct author names in 26 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
    Robertson SP6 papers · 2023

    Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Krakow D5 papers · 2023

    Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Superti-Furga A3 papers · 2023

    Division of Genetic Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Chen H2 papers · 2025

    Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Cohn DH2 papers · 2023

    Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Cormier-Daire V2 papers · 2023

    Paris Cité University, Reference Center for Skeletal Dysplasia, INSERM UMR 1163, Imagine Institute, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Hall C2 papers · 2023

    Emerita Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Great Ormond Street Childrens' Hospital, London, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Morgan T2 papers · 2016

    Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Mortier G2 papers · 2011
    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Mundlos S2 papers · 2023

    Institut für medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, 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.

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.

Broader category otopalatodigital syndrome also has no matched interventional trial. See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.

Broader category: otopalatodigital syndrome

0

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Parent-category matching found a broader label but no interventional trials under it. How we count trials.

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 3 · after dedupe 3 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 3 · 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 (3)

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 Otopalatodigital syndrome type 2 — 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.

("Otopalatodigital syndrome type 2" OR "OPD II syndrome" OR "OPD syndrome 2" OR "OPD 2 syndrome" OR "Otopalatodigital Syndrome Type I and II" OR "otopalatodigital syndrome, type II, X-linked dominant") OR (MESH:"Oto-palato-digital syndrome, type 2") OR ("FLNA" OR "FLNA syndrome" OR "FLNA-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Oto-palato-digital syndrome, type 2

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

"Otopalatodigital syndrome type 2" OR "OPD II syndrome" OR "OPD syndrome 2" OR "OPD 2 syndrome" OR "Otopalatodigital Syndrome Type I and II" OR "otopalatodigital syndrome, type II, X-linked dominant" OR "Oto-palato-digital syndrome, type 2"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"otopalatodigital syndrome"

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh; 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
  • Publication count (6519) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T03:53:21.493Z