ORPHA:97238
Rippling muscle disease
Publications
258
68.8th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
1,188
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
1/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
Rippling muscle disease is a rare, genetic, neuromuscular disorder characterized by muscle hyperirritability triggered by stretch, percussion or movement. Patients present wave-like, electrically-silent muscle contractions (rippling), muscle mounding, painful muscle stiffness and muscle hypertrophy, usually with elevated serum creatine kinase.
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.
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.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
258 matched papers (115 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 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?
258
258 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.
258 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).
115 in the last 10 years · medium confidence · 68.8th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 258 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
1,188
Distinct author names in 200 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.
- 01Minetti C10 papers · 2022
Department of Pediatrics, Neuromuscular Disease Unit, Gaslini Pediatric Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Vorgerd M9 papers · 2023
Department of Neurology, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany. matthias.vorgerd@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Kubisch C8 papers · 2009
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Lisanti MP8 papers · 2010
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Jefferson Medical College;, Department of Cancer Biology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Sotgia F8 papers · 2010
Departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, and The Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Dubey D7 papers · 2026
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Liewluck T7 papers · 2025
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Milone M7 papers · 2025
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. milone.margherita@mayo.edu
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Straub V7 papers · 2022
John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Centre for Life, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Ricker K6 papers · 2002
Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, West 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 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.
See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.
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.
"Rippling muscle disease"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Rippling muscle disease"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
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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 (258) is high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — confidence capped at medium
Ingested 2026-07-27T05:03:23.879Z