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porphyria

inherited metabolic disorder involving the build-up of porphyrins
MedicalCondition designated_intractable_rare_disease Q271759
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Summary

porphyria is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. porphyria ranks in the top 6% of designated intractable rare disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,010 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class of disease[3]
  • Subclass of: inherited metabolic disorder[4], metabolic skin disease[5], photodermatosis[6], disease[7]
  • Commons category: Porphyrias[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Porphyrias[9]
  • External data available at URL: http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/5545[10]
  • ICD-9-CM: 277.1[11]
  • Different from: Porphyra[12]
  • Health specialty: endocrinology[13]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13268[14], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13268[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[16]

Why It Matters

porphyria has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] porphyria is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

disease endocrinology George III of Great Britain Mary, Queen of Scots

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). porphyria. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/porphyria
MLA “porphyria.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 17 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/porphyria.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_porphyria_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{porphyria}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/porphyria}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-17}}
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Edit History

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. 12w ago · ~2026-41289-47 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty → endocrinology
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Health specialty: hematology"
  2. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dewey decimal classification → 616.399
    Subclass of → inherited metabolic disorder, metabolic skin disease, photodermatosis +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  3. 18w ago · Maxwan · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gnd id → 4244502-4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Gnd id: 4244502-4"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Porphyra
    Subclass of → inherited metabolic disorder, metabolic skin disease, photodermatosis +1
    Aliases → —
    Instance of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 15481, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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