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ORPHA:93384

Brachydactyly type C

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

3,389

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

829

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

GDF5

Definitive

Readiness

4/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare limb characterized by hypoplastic middle phalanges of fingers 2, 3, and 5, with relative sparing of finger 4, as well as hyperphalangy most commonly affecting fingers 2 and 3, shortening of the first metacarpal with short thumb, and ulnar deviation of fingers 2 and 3. The severity of the is highly variable.

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 (1)

brachydactyly type C

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.”

4/6 stages with a signal

No matched interventional trial, but a gene association and an animal model are on record — often described as translation-ready / stalled at the clinical step.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — GDF5

  2. LiteraturePresent

    3,389 matched papers (2,150 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    48 HPO annotations (e.g. Abnormal fingernail morphology; Clinodactyly of the 5th finger; Short stature) Source

  4. Animal modelPresent

    1 genotype model (Mus musculus) Source

  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 (GDF5).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

48

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0007221

  • Abnormal fingernail morphology
  • Clinodactyly of the 5th finger
  • Short stature
  • Pseudoepiphysis of the 2nd finger
  • Short metatarsal

Showing 5 of 48 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

1

Model associations linked to this Mondo ID

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?

3,389

3,389 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.

3,389 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).

2,150 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 123 · MeSH hits: 5

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

829

Distinct author names in 123 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
    Mundlos S14 papers · 2023

    1] Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany [2] Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Warman ML8 papers · 2023

    Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Dobbs MB6 papers · 2022

    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, One Children's Place, Suite 4S20, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. dobbsm@msnotes.wustl.edu

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Seemann P6 papers · 2015

    Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Cormier-Daire V4 papers · 2023

    Department of Genetics, Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Fondation Imagine, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Gurnett CA4 papers · 2022

    Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Kjaer KW4 papers · 2013

    Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. klaus@medgen.ku.dk

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Savarirayan R4 papers · 2023

    Genetic Health Services Victoria, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Australia. savarirr@cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Dathe K3 papers · 2015

    Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Goodman FR3 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 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 brachydactyly 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: brachydactyly

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 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 Brachydactyly type C — 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.

("Brachydactyly type C") OR (MESH:"Brachydactyly type C") OR ("GDF5" OR "GDF5 syndrome" OR "GDF5-related")

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MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Brachydactyly type C

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

"Brachydactyly type C"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"brachydactyly"

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

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 (3389) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T04:19:37.595Z