Absence of fingerprints-congenital milia syndrome

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Also known as absence of dermatoglyphics congenital miliaabsence of dermatoglyphics-congenital milia syndromeabsence of fingerprints congenital miliaadermatoglyphia with congenital facial milia and acral blisters, digital contractures, and nail abnormalitiesBaird syndromeBasan syndrome

Summary

Absence of fingerprints-congenital milia syndrome (MONDO:0007507) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

  • Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000 (Worldwide) [Orphanet-validated]
  • Cohort genes: 1
  • ClinVar variants: 8
  • Phenotypes (HPO): 9

Clinical features

Epidemiology

Prevalence records

2 prevalence record(s), Orphanet:

TypeClassValueGeographyValidation
Cases/families10WorldwideValidated
Point prevalence<1 / 1 000 000WorldwideValidated

Signs & symptoms

Clinical features (HPO)

9 HPO clinical features (Orphanet curated; top 9 by frequency):

HPO IDTermFrequency
HP:0000963Thin skinVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0001056MiliaVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0007477Abnormal dermatoglyphicsVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0008066Abnormal blistering of the skinVery frequent (80-99%)
HP:0000966HypohidrosisFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0000988Skin rashFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0001072Thickened skinFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0100490Camptodactyly of fingerFrequent (30-79%)
HP:0009775Amniotic constriction ringOccasional (5-29%)

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical nameabsence of fingerprints-congenital milia syndrome
Mondo IDMONDO:0007507
MeSHC537659
OMIM129200
Orphanet1658
DOIDDOID:0080725
ICD-111298640608
SNOMED CT239011004
UMLSC0406707
MedGen140808
GARD0002336
Is cancer (heuristic)no

Also known as: absence of dermatoglyphics congenital milia · absence of dermatoglyphics-congenital milia syndrome · absence of fingerprints congenital milia · adermatoglyphia with congenital facial milia and acral blisters, digital contractures, and nail abnormalities · Baird syndrome · Basan syndrome

Data availability: 8 ClinVar variants · 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › integumentary system disorder › skin disorderepidermal diseaseabsence of fingerprints-congenital milia syndrome

Related subtypes (24): porokeratosis, Darier disease, hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans, keratolytic winter erythema, Hailey-Hailey disease, VPS13A-related neurodegenerative disease, acanthosis nigricans-insulin resistance-muscle cramps-acral enlargement syndrome, keratosis linearis-ichthyosis congenita-sclerosing keratoderma syndrome, seborrhea-like dermatitis with psoriasiform elements, psoriasis 14, pustular, palmoplantar pustulosis, hereditary poikiloderma, congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis, neonatal inflammatory skin and bowel disease, 13q12.3 microdeletion syndrome, zinc-responsive necrolytic acral erythema, keratosis pilaris atrophicans, ichthyosis, erythrokeratoderma, hereditary palmoplantar keratoderma, inherited epidermolysis bullosa, punctate acrokeratoderma freckle-like pigmentation, aquagenic palmoplantar keratoderma, phrynoderma

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

ClinVar germline variants

8 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

4 benign, 3 pathogenic, 1 uncertain significance

ClinVarVariant (HGVS)GeneClassificationReview
1050853Single alleleLOC129992843Pathogenicno assertion criteria provided
187779NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.1281+667A>TSMARCAD1Pathogenicno assertion criteria provided
30981NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.1281+665G>TSMARCAD1Pathogenicno assertion criteria provided
3068308NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.1733-4C>ASMARCAD1Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
1220932NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.902T>C (p.Val301Ala)SMARCAD1Benigncriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1236001NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.1839C>T (p.Asp613=)SMARCAD1Benigncriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1259682NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.1479A>G (p.Gln493=)SMARCAD1Benigncriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1286948NM_020159.5(SMARCAD1):c.740G>A (p.Ser247Asn)SMARCAD1Benigncriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 7 · Orphanet: 3 · OMIM-shared: 0 · Dual-evidence (GWAS+Mendelian): 0

GenCC gene–disease validity (cohort genes)

the Disease column is the GenCC-asserted condition — a cohort gene’s strongest validity may be for a related predisposition syndrome.

GeneClassificationInheritanceDiseaseRecords
SMARCAD1StrongAutosomal dominantisolated congenital adermatoglyphia7

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

GeneOrphanet IDRare disease
SMARCAD1Orphanet:1658Absence of fingerprints-congenital milia syndrome
SMARCAD1Orphanet:289465Isolated congenital adermatoglyphia
SMARCAD1Orphanet:384Huriez syndrome

Cohort genes → proteins

1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

SubsetGenes
multi_evidence1

Cohort genes (full)

SymbolHGNCEnsemblUniProtNameEvidence
SMARCAD1HGNC:18398ENSG00000163104Q9H4L7SWI/SNF-related matrix-associated actin-dependent regulator of chromatin subfamily A containing DEAD/H box 1gencc,clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

SymbolProtein nameFunction (lead sentence)
SMARCAD1SWI/SNF-related matrix-associated actin-dependent regulator of chromatin subfamily A containing DEAD/H box 1Protein that possesses intrinsic ATP-dependent nucleosome-remodeling activity and is both required for DNA repair and heterochromatin organization.

Protein-family classification

Druggable: 0 · Difficult: 0 · Unknown: 1 · Druggable fraction: 0.0

Family distribution

Cohort families vs a genome-wide background (hypergeometric, BH-FDR; fold = observed/expected). Counts kept; sorted by enrichment, so the catch-all Other/Unknown bucket no longer leads.

FamilyGenesFoldFDR
Other/Unknown11.8×0.558

Per-gene assignment

SymbolFamilyDruggable?ECInterPro (top 3)
SMARCAD1Other/UnknownnoSNF2_N, Helicase_C-like, CUE

Expression context

Cohort genes with no expression data: 0.

1 cohort gene are a single-cell marker in ≥1 SCXA experiment.

Breadth distribution (Bgee present_calls)

BucketGenes
narrow (1-5 tissues)0
moderate (6-20)0
broad (>20)1
unknown0

Top tissues across cohort

TissueCohort genes
adrenal tissue1
ganglionic eminence1
tibia1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

SymbolBgee breadthFANTOM5 breadthSCXATop tissues
SMARCAD1245ubiquitousmarkeradrenal tissue, ganglionic eminence, tibia

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

SymbolInteractor count
SMARCAD12,862

Structural data

PDB: 1 · AlphaFold-only: 0 · No structure: 0

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

SymbolUniProtPDB entries
SMARCAD1Q9H4L74

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 0. Enrichment computed across 1 evidence-associated genes (0 with Reactome annotation).

GO biological processes by enrichment

Over-representation of cohort genes vs the genome-wide background (hypergeometric test, Benjamini-Hochberg FDR; fold = observed/expected over 1 annotated cohort genes). Counts and members are kept as ground-truth; sorted by enrichment.

GO termCohort genesFoldFDRSample cohort genes
regulation of DNA recombination14213.0×7e-04SMARCAD1
chromosome separation14213.0×7e-04SMARCAD1
DNA double-strand break processing11532.0×0.001SMARCAD1
heterochromatin formation1255.3×0.006SMARCAD1
chromatin remodeling173.0×0.016SMARCAD1
positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II114.9×0.067SMARCAD1

Therapeutics

Drug target analysis

Approved (phase 4): 0 · Phase ≥3: 0 · Phased (≥1): 0 · Undrugged: 1

Druggability breadth: 0 of 1 evidence-associated genes (0%) have a ChEMBL target (buckets above are over the deeply-mined display cohort).

Top cohort targets by molecule count

SymbolMoleculesMax phase
SMARCAD100

Bioactivity and enzyme data

Enzyme cohort genes (≥1 EC): 0.

Pharmacogenomics

Cohort genes with a PharmGKB record: 1; with CPIC/DPWG dosing guidelines: 0.

No cohort gene has a CPIC/DPWG genotype-guided dosing guideline (PharmGKB).

Chemical tractability of cohort targets

0 approved/phased compounds have measured bioactivity against a cohort gene (and aren’t yet in disease-level trials). This is a research / tractability signal, NOT a therapeutic recommendation — a bioactivity row often reflects off-target or screening binding (e.g. promiscuous kinase inhibitors against a cohort kinase), implying no disease mechanism.

Druggability pyramid

Cohort genes binned by druggability tier (high → low):

TierDefinitionGenesSymbols
AApproved (phase 4 drug)0
BPhased (≥1) drug, not yet approved0
CDruggable family + PDB, no drug0
DDruggable family + AlphaFold only, no drug0
EDifficult family or no structure, no drug1SMARCAD1

Undrugged target profiles

1 cohort genes are undrugged. Ranked by ‘starting-point quality’ (assay depth + drugged-partner adjacency).

SymbolChEMBL assaysDrugged partners (top 3)
SMARCAD10

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.