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Bethlem myopathy

human disease
MedicalCondition designated_intractable_rare_disease Q831363
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Summary

Bethlem myopathy is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. It draws 512 Wikipedia views per month (designated intractable rare disease category, ranking #135 of 201).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class of disease[3]
  • Named after: Jaap Bethlem[4]
  • Subclass of: congenital muscular dystrophy[5], Collagen VI myopathy[6]
  • External data available at URL: http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/4005[7]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C126688[8]
  • Genetic association: COL6A2[9], COL6A1[10], COL6A3[11]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050663[12], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0050663[13], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_610[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[15]

Why It Matters

Bethlem myopathy has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Retrieved . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . UniProt. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . UniProt. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . UniProt. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'ta']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 59099, Add qualifier to WikiProjectMed ID `Bethlem myopathy`"
  2. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    Named after → —
    Subclass of → congenital muscular dystrophy, Collagen VI myopathy
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39953|batch #39953]]: deprecate redundant disease superclasses (2)"
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