osteopetrosis

an extremely rare inherited disorder whereby the bones harden, becoming denser, sometimes causing bones to dissolve and break, caused by malfunctioning osteoclasts’ inability to resorb bone
MedicalCondition designated_intractable_rare_disease Q1755568
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osteopetrosis

Summary

osteopetrosis is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. osteopetrosis draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (designated_intractable_rare_disease category, ranking #104 of 201).[2]

Key Facts

  • osteopetrosis's instance of is recorded as designated intractable/rare disease[3].
  • osteopetrosis's instance of is recorded as rare disease[4].
  • osteopetrosis's instance of is recorded as class of disease[5].
  • Heinrich Albers-Schönberg is named after osteopetrosis[6].
  • osteopetrosis is a type of osteosclerosis[7].
  • osteopetrosis is a type of disease[8].
  • osteopetrosis's Commons category is recorded as Osteopetrosis[9].
  • osteopetrosis's external data available at URL is recorded as http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/5392[10].
  • osteopetrosis's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 756.52[11].
  • osteopetrosis's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C26840[12].
  • osteopetrosis's health specialty is recorded as medical genetics[13].
  • osteopetrosis's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as interferon gamma-1b[14].
  • osteopetrosis's genetic association is recorded as TCIRG1[15].
  • osteopetrosis's genetic association is recorded as LRP5[16].
  • osteopetrosis's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13533[17].
  • osteopetrosis's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13533[18].
  • osteopetrosis's exact match is recorded as http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_667[19].
  • osteopetrosis's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[20].

Why It Matters

osteopetrosis draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (designated_intractable_rare_disease category, ranking #104 of 201).[2] osteopetrosis has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] osteopetrosis is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Retrieved . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Provenance: 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] . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Retrieved . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Defects in TCIRG1 subunit of the vacuolar proton pump are responsible for a subset of human autosomal recessive osteopetrosis. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Six novel missense mutations in the LDL receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) gene in different conditions with an increased bone density. 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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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after
    Drug or therapy used for treatment interferon gamma-1b
    Named after Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
    Health specialty medical genetics
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