Meckel syndrome

a rare, lethal, ciliopathic, genetic disorder with malformations of the urinary system, of central nervous system, hepatic developmental defects, and pulmonary hypoplasia.
MedicalCondition rare_disease Q1915681
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Meckel syndrome

Summary

Meckel syndrome is a rare disease[1]. It draws 108 Wikipedia views per month (rare_disease category, ranking #197 of 627).[2]

Key Facts

  • Meckel syndrome's instance of is recorded as rare disease[3].
  • Meckel syndrome's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • Johann Friedrich Meckel the younger is named after Meckel syndrome[5].
  • Georg Benno Gruber is named after Meckel syndrome[6].
  • Meckel syndrome is a type of ciliopathy[7].
  • Meckel syndrome is a type of autosomal recessive[8].
  • Meckel syndrome is a type of syndrome[9].
  • Meckel syndrome is a type of disease[10].
  • Meckel syndrome's Commons category is recorded as Meckel syndrome[11].
  • Meckel syndrome's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 753.1[12].
  • Meckel syndrome's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 753.10[13].
  • Meckel syndrome's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C98978[14].
  • Meckel syndrome's health specialty is recorded as medical genetics[15].
  • Meckel syndrome's genetic association is recorded as MKS1[16].
  • Meckel syndrome's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050778[17].
  • Meckel syndrome's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0050778[18].
  • Meckel syndrome's exact match is recorded as http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_564[19].
  • Meckel syndrome's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[20].

Why It Matters

Meckel syndrome draws 108 Wikipedia views per month (rare_disease category, ranking #197 of 627).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . MKS1, encoding a component of the flagellar apparatus basal body proteome, is mutated in Meckel syndrome. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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