Disease Groupings

Curated unions of distinct disorders

Explicit, auditable groupings of distinct Disease entries assembled below the level of the classification taxonomies. Each grouping lists its members, records why they belong together (grouping_basis), and pairs a structured boolean membership criterion with per-member differentiating mechanisms.

100 groupings

Grouping Tree

85 roots 15 nested relations 15 nested groupings
  1. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Diseases 5 immediate members
  2. Chondrodysplasia Punctata (CDP) 9 immediate members
  3. Disorders of Copper Metabolism 4 immediate members
  4. Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) 7 immediate members
  5. Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies 3 immediate members
  6. Hereditary Systemic Amyloidoses 2 immediate members
  7. IL-17 Immunity Defects 3 immediate members
  8. Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEI) 9 immediate members
  9. Inherited Porphyrias 3 immediate members
  10. Kyphomelic dysplasia 2 immediate members
  11. Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs) 34 immediate members
    1. Mucolipidoses 4 immediate members
    2. Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) 7 immediate members
    3. Niemann-Pick Diseases 5 immediate members
  12. Osteogenesis Imperfecta 23 immediate members
  13. Progeroid Syndromes 7 immediate members
  14. TDP-43 Proteinopathies 3 immediate members
  15. Thalassemias 2 immediate members

All Groupings

Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
IUIS Table 9 — bone marrow failure. These inborn errors of immunity reach the immune system from below, through failure of the haematopoietic stem and progenitor compartment itself rather than through a lesion in a...
1 member 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
Cartilage matrix degradation disorders are articular conditions whose pathophysiology includes chondrocyte stress, catabolic cytokine signaling, matrix-degrading enzyme activity, and progressive loss of cartilage...
2 members 1 criteria block 1 candidate
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway
The centrosomopathies are hereditary disorders caused by dysfunction of the centrosome, centriole, or mitotic spindle apparatus. Because the centrosome governs the orientation, symmetry, and timing of progenitor cell...
8 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
IUIS Table 2 — combined immunodeficiencies with associated or syndromic features. These IEIs combine T- and/or B-cell immunodeficiency with prominent developmental, craniofacial, ectodermal, hematologic, or...
10 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
IUIS Table 5 — congenital defects of phagocyte number or function. These inborn errors of immunity impair the neutrophil/monocyte/macrophage compartment, either quantitatively (congenital neutropenia) or...
2 members 1 criteria block
Other
A curated union of dismech entries in which disease can arise from the combined action of variants at two loci (digenic) or a small number of loci (oligogenic/triallelic), rather than a single Mendelian locus....
24 members 1 criteria block 2 candidates
Shared Pathway Shared Mechanism
An auditable grouping of distinct DisMech disease entries whose primary defect disrupts glyoxylate, glycolate, oxalate, or calcium oxalate handling. Members include hepatic enzyme deficiencies that overproduce...
6 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Treatment Response
DNA repair synthetic-lethality cancers are tumors whose mechanism graph includes homologous recombination or FA/BRCA pathway impairment, replication-associated DNA damage accumulation, and vulnerability to PARP...
3 members 1 criteria block 1 candidate
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
Epilepsy excitation-inhibition imbalance disorders are entries whose pathophysiology converges on neuronal network hyperexcitability: ion-channel or synaptic dysfunction shifts excitation and inhibition toward...
3 members 1 criteria block 82 candidates
Shared Gene Family Shared Mechanism
A group of Mendelian skeletal disorders caused by gain-of-function variants in the fibroblast growth factor receptor genes FGFR1, FGFR2, and FGFR3. Constitutive receptor activation drives sustained MAPK/STAT...
15 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism
A mechanistically defined group of disorders that converge on the conserved fibrotic response: tissue injury and inflammation drive activation of mesenchymal cells into ECM-secreting myofibroblasts, whose excessive...
9 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
Glaucomatous optic neuropathies are disorders whose pathophysiology converges on progressive retinal ganglion cell apoptosis, optic nerve degeneration, and visual field loss. Upstream causes of outflow dysfunction...
3 members 1 criteria block 3 candidates
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway Shared Treatment Response
The Hedgehog pathway activation disorders are neoplastic diseases driven by ligand-independent, constitutive activation of Hedgehog signaling. A genetic lesion removes the pathway's tonic restraint — either loss of...
5 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Treatment Response
A group of malignancies that share the adaptive-immune-resistance mechanism exploited by immune checkpoint blockade. Tumor neoantigens elicit an anti-tumor T cell response; in response the tumor microenvironment...
8 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
IUIS Table 4 — diseases of immune dysregulation. These inborn errors of immunity feature uncontrolled lymphocyte activation, impaired immune checkpoints, or hyperinflammatory cytokine storms rather than isolated...
9 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
A curated grouping of explicit inherited porphyria disease entries. Current members include the inherited porphyria umbrella entry plus acute intermittent porphyria and porphyria due to ALA dehydratase deficiency,...
3 members 1 criteria block Coverage not assessed
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
IUIS Table 6 — defects in intrinsic and innate immunity. These inborn errors of immunity leave the adaptive compartment broadly intact and instead break a pattern-recognition, cytokine-signalling, or cell-intrinsic...
2 members 1 criteria block
Shared Phenotype Clinical Convention
Kyphomelic dysplasia is a clinical-radiographic label for skeletal dysplasias characterized by severe bowing — sharp angulation, or kyphomelia — of the long bones, especially the femora, together with variable...
2 members 1 criteria block Coverage not assessed
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway
A group of autosomal recessive reproductive disorders caused by defects in the machinery of meiotic prophase I — homolog pairing, synaptonemal complex assembly, and homologous recombination repair of programmed...
4 members 1 criteria block 4 candidates
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype Clinical Convention
A union of two autosomal recessive syndromes that are clinically almost indistinguishable — congenital microcephaly with intellectual disability, severe proportionate short stature, and autoantibody-negative...
2 members 2 criteria blocks Coverage 2/2 (100.0%)
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway
The mucolipidoses are lysosomal storage disorders that combine mucopolysaccharide-like and lipid-storage features, but arise from lysosomal hydrolase trafficking, targeting, or endolysosomal membrane-transport...
4 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway Shared Phenotype
Neural crest melanocyte deficiency disorders are Waardenburg-spectrum neurocristopathies in which upstream transcriptional or endothelin signaling lesions impair melanoblast migration, survival, or differentiation....
2 members 1 criteria block 1 candidate
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
A curated grouping of explicit Niemann-Pick disease entries spanning the acid sphingomyelinase deficiency branch (SMPD1-related types A, A/B, and B) and the cholesterol-trafficking branch (NPC1/NPC2-related type C)....
5 members 1 criteria block Coverage not assessed
Shared Pathway
This grouping collects rare inherited glycosylation disorders in which the primary lesion is not a single canonical N-glycan assembly enzyme or Golgi processing enzyme, but instead affects nucleotide-sugar precursor...
3 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
Parkinsonism dopaminergic degeneration disorders are entries that converge on basal ganglia motor circuit dysfunction with parkinsonism. Members may arise from neurodegenerative synucleinopathy or from...
2 members 1 criteria block 3 candidates
Shared Mechanism
The polyglutamine (polyQ) disorders are a group of dominantly inherited, adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases caused by expansion of a translated CAG trinucleotide repeat that encodes an elongated polyglutamine...
5 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
IUIS Table 3 — predominantly antibody deficiencies. These inborn errors of immunity feature impaired B-cell differentiation, class-switch recombination, or immunoglobulin secretion, resulting in hypogammaglobulinemia...
4 members 1 criteria block
Shared Phenotype Clinical Convention
The progeroid syndromes are hereditary disorders in which a prematurely aged appearance is part of the recognized clinical picture. They are grouped here on that phenotype and on nosological convention, not on a...
7 members 1 criteria block Coverage 7/16 (43.8%)
Shared Mechanism Shared Phenotype
The broad union of curated disorders that reach a single rate-limiting failure — hydroxyapatite is not deposited at the mineralization front — regardless of the route by which they get there. In growing bone that...
9 members 2 criteria blocks Coverage not assessed
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway Clinical Convention
A grouping for disorders caused by a single large-scale mitochondrial DNA deletion. Members share a primary heteroplasmic mtDNA deletion that impairs mitochondrial translation and oxidative phosphorylation, but they...
2 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway
Somatotroph cAMP/PKA pituitary tumor syndromes are growth-hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma or hyperplasia disorders in which distinct genetic lesions converge on increased cAMP availability, cAMP/PKA signaling,...
3 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway
A curated union of monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders caused by defects in the presynaptic synaptic vesicle cycle — the trafficking cycle by which neurons load, dock, prime, fuse (Ca2+-triggered, SNARE-mediated),...
10 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Pathway
TDP-43 proteinopathies are neurodegenerative disorders whose mechanism graphs include pathological redistribution of TDP-43 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregation, and/or nuclear loss of...
3 members 1 criteria block
Shared Mechanism Shared Gene Family Shared Phenotype
A curated grouping of explicit thalassemia disease entries caused by inherited reduction or loss of alpha- or beta-globin chain synthesis. Members share globin-chain imbalance, abnormal hemoglobin biosynthesis,...
2 members 1 criteria block Coverage not assessed