Krabbe disease

congenital disorder of the nervous system
MedicalCondition rare_disease Q511372
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Krabbe disease

Summary

Krabbe disease is a rare disease[1]. It draws 441 Wikipedia views per month (rare_disease category, ranking #133 of 627).[2]

Key Facts

  • Krabbe disease's instance of is recorded as rare disease[3].
  • Krabbe disease's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • Knud Krabbe is named after Krabbe disease[5].
  • Krabbe disease is a type of sphingolipidosis[6].
  • Krabbe disease is a type of nervous system heredodegenerative disease[7].
  • Krabbe disease is a type of eye degenerative disease[8].
  • Krabbe disease is a type of disease[9].
  • Krabbe disease's Commons category is recorded as Krabbe disease[10].
  • Krabbe disease's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C61254[11].
  • Krabbe disease's health specialty is recorded as metabolic disease[12].
  • Krabbe disease's genetic association is recorded as GALC[13].
  • Krabbe disease's genetic association is recorded as PSAP[14].
  • Krabbe disease's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10587[15].
  • Krabbe disease's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10587[16].
  • Krabbe disease's exact match is recorded as http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_487[17].
  • Krabbe disease's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[18].

Why It Matters

Krabbe disease draws 441 Wikipedia views per month (rare_disease category, ranking #133 of 627).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Q905695. Retrieved . platform.opentargets.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . A mutation in the saposin A coding region of the prosaposin gene in an infant presenting as Krabbe disease: first report of saposin A deficiency in humans. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty metabolic disease
    Instance of rare disease, class of disease
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