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ORPHA:98766

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: SCA5

Publications

904

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,128

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

SPTBN2

Definitive

Readiness

4/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

An cerebellar type III that is characterized by the early-onset of cerebellar signs with eye movement abnormalities and a very slow disease progression.

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 (1)

spinocerebellar ataxia type 5

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 — SPTBN2

  2. LiteraturePresent

    904 matched papers (648 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    29 HPO annotations (e.g. Incoordination; Cerebellar atrophy; Gait disturbance) Source

  4. Animal modelPresent

    3 genotype models (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 (SPTBN2).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

29

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0010848

  • Incoordination
  • Cerebellar atrophy
  • Gait disturbance
  • Slurred speech
  • Strabismus

Showing 5 of 29 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

3

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?

904

904 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.

904 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).

648 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 183 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,128

Distinct author names in 183 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
    Day JW14 papers · 2025

    From the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (U.M., M.K.J., A.G.M., R.F.-T., M.E., K.B., R.M.L., H.H., H.L., K.B., V.S.), Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Central Parkway, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Center for Translational Science (M.J., J.F., A. Cnaan), Division of Biostatistics and Study Methodology, Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group (T.D., B.D.), and Department of Neurology (D.X.B.-G.), Children's National Health System; Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics (M.J., A. Cnaan), George Washington University, Washington, DC; Neuromuscular Area (R.F.-T.), Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Neurology Service, Donostia University Hospital, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain; Jain Foundation (L.E.R., P.M.), Seattle, WA; Magnetic Resonance Centre (A.M.B.), Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; AIM & CEA NMR Laboratory (P.G.C.), Institute of Myology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, 47-83, Paris, France; Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital (L.P.L., L.A., K.M.B., J.R.M.), The Ohio State University, Columbus; Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research (K.R., M. Hutchence, K.J.J.), Children's Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Australia; Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (T.D.), 24349, Neurology, Palo Alto, CA; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (E.M.-M., I.P.-H.), Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; Neuroscience Institute (S.H., M.S., E.B., S. Sparks), Carolinas Neuromuscular/ALS-MDA Center, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC; Department of Physical Rehabilitation (A.A., C. Sakamoto, T.T., H.Y.), National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; Institut de Myologie (A. Canal, G.O., V.D., J.-Y.H., T.S.), AP-HP, GH Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Neurorehabilitation Unit (J.B.M.), Rehabilitation Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío Sevilla; Neurophysiotherapy Department (N.S.-A.P.), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain; Friedrich-Baur-Institute (S. Thiele, S.K., O.S.-K. M.C.W.), Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany; Department of Neurology (C. Siener, J.S., J.M.F., M. Harms, A.P.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Centre de Reference des Maladies Neuromusculaires PACA Réunion Rhone Alpes (B.V., E.S.-C.), Hopital de la Timone, Aix-Marseille Université, France; ELAN-PHYSIO (J.P., E.M.), Praxis für Physiotherapie Maron; Charite Muscle Research Unit (U.G., S. Spuler), Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences (C.T.R., J.W.D.), Stanford University School of Medicine, CA; NIH (D.X.B.-G.), Bethesda, MD; Neuromuscular Unit (C.P.), Department of Neurology, Hospital U. Virgen del Rocío/Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Spain; Department of Neurology (S. Takeda, M.M.-Y.), National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Raras (J.D.-M.); Neuromuscular Disorders Unit (J.D.-M.), Neurology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; and Department of Neuroscience (L.B., C. Semplicini, E.P.), University of Padova, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Avery AW13 papers · 2026

    Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Denha SA9 papers · 2026

    Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Hays TS9 papers · 2026

    Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. haysx001@umn.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Jackson M9 papers · 2016

    3 Centre for Integrative Physiology, Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK andrea.nemeth@ndcn.ox.ac.uk Mandy.Jackson@ed.ac.uk stephen.tucker@physics.ox.ac.uk.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Atang AE8 papers · 2025

    Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48309-4479, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Ranum LP8 papers · 2018

    Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Thomas DD8 papers · 2024

    Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Rasband MN7 papers · 2022

    Department of Neuroscience and rasband@bcm.edu.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Stankewich MC7 papers · 2021

    Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar St. BML 150, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Michael.stankewich@yale.edu

    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.

See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.

General rare disease registries you may be eligible for

These studies enroll across many rare conditions. They are not counted as evidence that anyone is studying this specific disease.

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 Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 — 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.

("Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5") OR ("SPTBN2" OR "SPTBN2 syndrome" OR "SPTBN2-related")

Run this search on Europe PMC

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

"Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5"

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: SCA5

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
  • Publication count (904) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T05:22:16.674Z