ORPHA:93337
Polydactyly of an index finger
Also known as: PPD3 · Preaxial polydactyly type 3
Query health: suspect — Only one of 3 strategies returned hits (phrase).
Publications
15
28.7th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
101
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
Polydactyly of an index finger or PPD3 is a form of preaxial polydactyly of fingers, a limb syndrome, where the thumb is replaced by one or two triphalangeal digits with dermatoglyphic pattern specific of the index finger. Two forms of PPD3 have been characterized: unilateral and bilateral. There have been no further descriptions in the literature since 1962.
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.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0008271
- MeSH:C566784
- OMIM:174600
- UMLS:C1868113
Additional Mondo synonyms (2)
polydactyly, preaxial type 3 · preaxial polydactyly type 3
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
No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
15 matched papers (11 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- Interventional trialPartial
None under the specific name; 1 for broader category polydactyly
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)
Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
Not enriched in this build.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
15
15 papers have ever been indexed 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=5449) is 41.
15 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).
11 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 28.7th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 15 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
101
Distinct author names in 15 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.
- 01Bubshait DK2 papers · 2022
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Cormier-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 - 03Hall C2 papers · 2023
Emerita Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Great Ormond Street Childrens' Hospital, London, UK.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Krakow D2 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 - 05Mundlos S2 papers · 2023
Institut für medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Nishimura G2 papers · 2023
Department of Radiology, Musashino-Yowakai Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Savarirayan R2 papers · 2023
Murdoch Children's Research Institute and University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Sillence D2 papers · 2023
Specialities of Genomic Medicine and Paediatrics and Adolescent Health, Sydney University Clinical School, Children's Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Superti-Furga A2 papers · 2023
Division of Genetic Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Unger S2 papers · 2023
Division of Genetic Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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). 1 trial are registered for polydactyly, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.
Data as of 27 July 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
medium confidence · 36.5th 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.
1 interventional trial matched polydactyly, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.
Broader category: polydactyly
1
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
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.
"Polydactyly of an index finger" OR "Polydactyly of the an index finger" OR "Preaxial polydactyly type 3" OR "polydactyly, preaxial type 3"
MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Polydactyly, Preaxial III
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Polydactyly of an index finger" OR "Polydactyly of the an index finger" OR "Preaxial polydactyly type 3" OR "polydactyly, preaxial type 3" OR "Polydactyly, Preaxial III" OR "preaxial polydactyly of fingers" OR "polydactyly-syndactyly-triphalangism" OR "non-syndromic polydactyly"
Recall-expansion terms: preaxial polydactyly of fingers, polydactyly-syndactyly-triphalangism, non-syndromic polydactyly
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"polydactyly"
Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Synonyms dropped by stoplist: PPD3
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 2026-07-27T04:17:05.923Z