Palpebral nevus

Summary

Palpebral nevus (MONDO:0020179) is a disease. A subtype of melanocytic nevus — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	palpebral nevus
Mondo ID	MONDO:0020179
Orphanet	98588
NCIT	C3880
SNOMED CT	231827008
UMLS	C0239460
MedGen	65985
Anatomy (UBERON)	UBERON:0001457
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Also known as: eyelid nevus · melanocytic nevus of skin of eyelid · nevus of eyelid · nevus of the eyelid · skin of eyelid melanocytic nevus

Disease family

This is a subtype of melanocytic nevus. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › integumentary system disorder › integumentary system benign neoplasm › benign neoplasm of skin › melanocytic nevus › palpebral nevus

Related subtypes (27): conjunctival nevus, blue nevus, halo nevus, intradermal nevus, pigmented spindle cell nevus, nevus, epidermal, neurocutaneous melanocytosis, neutrophil actin dysfunction, CHILD syndrome, Becker nevus syndrome, CLOVES syndrome, nevus comedonicus syndrome, segmental outgrowth-lipomatosis-arteriovenous malformation-epidermal nevus syndrome, congenital panfollicular nevus, porokeratotic eccrine ostial and dermal duct nevus, hereditary mucosal leukokeratosis, linear verrucous nevus syndrome, nevus of Ota, nevus of Ito, phakomatosis pigmentokeratotica, PENS syndrome, Angora hair nevus, didymosis aplasticosebacea, scalp syndrome, Nevada syndrome, large congenital melanocytic nevus, benign melanocytic skin nevus

Subtypes (1): linear nevus sebaceous syndrome

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.