Alpha-heavy chain disease

disease
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Also known as alpha chain diseaseAlpha heavy chain diseaseAlpha-HCDImmunoproliferative small intestinal diseaseIPSIDMediterranean abdominal lymphomaMediterranean lymphomaMediterraneanl lymphomaSeligmann's disease

Summary

Alpha-heavy chain disease (MONDO:0015045) is a disease. A subtype of heavy chain disease — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

At a glance

  • Prevalence: Unknown (Worldwide) [Orphanet-validated]
  • Phenotypes (HPO): 15

Clinical features

Epidemiology

Prevalence records

1 prevalence record(s), Orphanet:

TypeClassValueGeographyValidation
Cases/families400WorldwideValidated

Signs & symptoms

Clinical features (HPO)

15 HPO clinical features (Orphanet curated; top 15 by frequency):

HPO IDTermFrequency
HP:0002024MalabsorptionVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0002244Abnormality of the small intestineVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0002961DysgammaglobulinemiaVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0001903AnemiaFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0002027Abdominal painFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0002721ImmunodeficiencyFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0002901HypocalcemiaFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0001510Growth delayOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0001541AscitesOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0001596AlopeciaOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0001744SplenomegalyOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0001945FeverOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0002240HepatomegalyOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0002665LymphomaOccasional (5-29%)
HP:0002716LymphadenopathyOccasional (5-29%)

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical namealpha-heavy chain disease
Mondo IDMONDO:0015045
MeSHD007161
Orphanet100025
DOIDDOID:0060126
ICD-11680227490
NCITC3132
UMLSC0021071
MedGen7039
GARD0019742
Is cancer (heuristic)no

Also known as: alpha chain disease · Alpha heavy chain disease · Alpha-HCD · Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease · IPSID · Mediterranean abdominal lymphoma · Mediterranean lymphoma · Mediterraneanl lymphoma · Seligmann’s disease

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › immune system disorderleukocyte disorderB-cell neoplasmneoplasm of mature B-cellsplasma cell neoplasm › heavy chain disease › alpha-heavy chain disease

Related subtypes (4): delta-heavy chain disease, mu-heavy chain disease, gamma-heavy chain disease, epsilon-heavy chain disease

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).

Function

No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.

Therapeutics

No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.

No linked Atlas pages yet — the cross-entity mesh grows as the corpus expands.