Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 7

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Also known as autosomal dominant deafness 7autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness 7autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness type 7deafness, autosomal dominant 7DFNA7

Summary

Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 7 (MONDO:0011074) is a disease caused by LMX1A (GenCC Strong), with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

  • Causal gene: LMX1A (GenCC Strong)
  • Cohort genes: 1
  • ClinVar variants: 19

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical nameautosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 7
Mondo IDMONDO:0011074
MeSHC563321
OMIM601412
DOIDDOID:0110591
UMLSC1832379
MedGen318614
GARD0018106
Is cancer (heuristic)no

Also known as: autosomal dominant deafness 7 · autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness 7 · autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness type 7 · deafness, autosomal dominant 7 · DFNA7

Data availability: 19 ClinVar variants · 4 GenCC gene-disease records.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of genetic or genomic mechanism › hereditary disease › autosomal genetic disease › autosomal dominant disease › autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing lossautosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 7

Related subtypes (75): autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 1, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 2A, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 4A, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 5, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 10, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 11, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 9, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 12, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 3A, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 13, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 15, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 17, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 16, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 20, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 23, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 25, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 18, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 24, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 22, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 30, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 36, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 21, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 44, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 48, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 41, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 49, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 43, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 28, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 31, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 47, autosomal dominant auditory neuropathy 1, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 53, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 27, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 59, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 3B, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 2B, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 50, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 51, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 64, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 33, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 4B, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 56, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 54, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 58, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 65, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 67, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 40, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 69, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 68, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 70, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 66, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 74, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 77, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 81, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 82, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 83, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 84, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 80, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 37, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 75, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 76, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 71, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 72, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 73, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 34, with or without inflammation, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 78, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 79, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 85, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 86, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 87, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 88, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 89, hearing loss, autosomal dominant 90, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 91

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

19 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

9 uncertain significance, 4 likely pathogenic, 4 pathogenic, 2 benign

ClinVarVariant (HGVS)GeneClassificationReview
1705342NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.595A>G (p.Arg199Gly)LMX1APathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
1723178NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.622C>T (p.Arg208Ter)LMX1APathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
812515NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.721G>C (p.Val241Leu)LMX1APathogenicno assertion criteria provided
812516NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.290G>C (p.Cys97Ser)LMX1APathogenicno assertion criteria provided
1687337NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.331del (p.Gln111fs)LMX1ALikely pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
2503455NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.937C>T (p.Arg313Ter)LMX1ALikely pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
3601196NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.596G>A (p.Arg199Lys)LMX1ALikely pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
4813826NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.390_391delinsAT (p.Lys131Ter)LMX1ALikely pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
1805025NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.581G>T (p.Arg194Leu)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
2433492NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.874G>A (p.Ala292Thr)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
2664708NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.317T>G (p.Phe106Cys)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
3355759NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.581G>A (p.Arg194His)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
3377593NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.915T>G (p.Ser305Arg)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
3602621NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.683T>A (p.Leu228Gln)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
3891582NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.45C>G (p.Ile15Met)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
4685531NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.550G>A (p.Gly184Arg)LMX1AUncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
4845259NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.589C>T (p.Arg197Cys)LMX1AUncertain significanceno assertion criteria provided
1252147NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.349C>T (p.Leu117=)LMX1ABenigncriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1294826NM_177398.4(LMX1A):c.1050T>C (p.Asp350=)LMX1ABenigncriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 7 · Orphanet: 0 · 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
LMX1ADefinitiveAutosomal dominantautosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss7

Cohort genes → proteins

1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

SubsetGenes
multi_evidence1

Cohort genes (full)

SymbolHGNCEnsemblUniProtNameEvidence
LMX1AHGNC:6653ENSG00000162761Q8TE12LIM homeobox transcription factor 1-alphagencc,clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

SymbolProtein nameFunction (lead sentence)
LMX1ALIM homeobox transcription factor 1-alphaActs as a transcriptional activator by binding to an A/T-rich sequence, the FLAT element, in the insulin gene promoter.

Protein-family classification

Druggable: 0 · Difficult: 1 · Unknown: 0 · 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
Transcription factor18.3×0.121

Per-gene assignment

SymbolFamilyDruggable?ECInterPro (top 3)
LMX1ATranscription factornoHD, Znf_LIM, Homeodomain-like_sf

Expression context

Cohort genes with no expression data: 0.

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
apex of heart1
male germ line stem cell (sensu Vertebrata) in testis1
sperm1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

SymbolBgee breadthFANTOM5 breadthSCXATop tissues
LMX1A92tissue_specificyesmale germ line stem cell (sensu Vertebrata) in testis, sperm, apex of heart

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

SymbolInteractor count
LMX1A1,202

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

SymbolUniProtPDB entries
LMX1AQ8TE123

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
olfactory behavior11872.4×0.006LMX1A
midbrain dopaminergic neuron differentiation11203.7×0.006LMX1A
dentate gyrus development1624.1×0.006LMX1A
dopaminergic neuron differentiation1624.1×0.006LMX1A
cerebellum development1358.6×0.007LMX1A
synapse organization1280.9×0.007LMX1A
negative regulation of neuron differentiation1271.8×0.007LMX1A
regulation of cell growth1221.7×0.008LMX1A
memory1183.2×0.008LMX1A
locomotory behavior1179.3×0.008LMX1A
neuron differentiation1100.3×0.013LMX1A
axon guidance190.6×0.013LMX1A
positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II114.9×0.072LMX1A
regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II111.7×0.086LMX1A

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
LMX1A00

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 drug1LMX1A

Undrugged target profiles

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

SymbolChEMBL assaysDrugged partners (top 3)
LMX1A0

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.