RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:96191

Paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 syndrome

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: UPD(6)pat

Publications

28

39.4th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

225

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

1/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 is an uniparental disomy of paternal origin characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, transient diabetes mellitus, and macroglossia.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

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

Additional Mondo synonyms (1)

paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome type 6

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.”

1/6 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

    28 matched papers (23 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  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)

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?

28

28 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=5449) is 41.

28 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).

23 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 39.4th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 28 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

225

Distinct author names in 28 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
    Eggermann T10 papers · 2024

    Department of Human Genetics, RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstr. 30, Aachen, Germany ; Sorbonne Universites, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 938, CDR Saint-Antoine, Paris, France ; 3APHP, Pediatric Endocrinology, Armand Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Kagami M5 papers · 2025

    Department of Molecular Endocrinology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Hara-Isono K4 papers · 2025

    Department of Molecular Endocrinology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, 2-10-1 Okura, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, 157-8535, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Netchine I4 papers · 2022

    Endocrinology and diabetology for children and reference center for rare disorders of calcium and phosphorus metabolism, Bicêtre Paris Sud, APHP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France ; INSERM U986, INSERM, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France ; INSERM, UMR_S 938, CDR Saint-Antoine, Paris, F-75012 France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Riccio A4 papers · 2022

    DiSTABiF, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Caserta, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Fukami M3 papers · 2025

    Department of Molecular Endocrinology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, 2-10-1 Okura, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, 157-8535, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Maher ER3 papers · 2022

    Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Ogata T3 papers · 2024

    Department of Pediatrics, Hamamatsu Medical Center and Department of Biochemistry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Temple IK3 papers · 2022

    Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Southampton, Southampton, UK ; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Coxford Road, Southampton, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Tümer Z3 papers · 2022

    Clinical Genetic Clinic, Kennedy Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark.

    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 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.

high 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.

Broader category uniparental disomy 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: uniparental disomy

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.

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 2026-07-26

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.

"Paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 syndrome" OR "Paternal uniparental disomy of the chromosome 6 syndrome" OR "UPD(6)pat" OR "paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome type 6" OR "paternal uniparental disomy of the chromosome type 6"

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 syndrome" OR "Paternal uniparental disomy of the chromosome 6 syndrome" OR "UPD(6)pat" OR "paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome type 6" OR "paternal uniparental disomy of the chromosome type 6"

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

Parent-category trials query:

"uniparental disomy"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; 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

Ingested 2026-07-27T04:59:16.279Z