benign Samaritan congenital myopathy

Summary

benign Samaritan congenital myopathy (MONDO:0017936) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000 (Worldwide) [Orphanet-validated]
• Cohort genes: 1
• Phenotypes (HPO): 19

Clinical features

Epidemiology

Prevalence records

2 prevalence record(s), Orphanet:

Type	Class	Value	Geography	Validation
Cases/families		4	Worldwide	Validated
Point prevalence	<1 / 1 000 000		Worldwide	Validated

Signs & symptoms

Clinical features (HPO)

19 HPO clinical features (Orphanet curated; top 19 by frequency):

HPO ID	Term	Frequency
HP:0000286	Epicanthus	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0000316	Hypertelorism	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0000341	Narrow forehead	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0001265	Hyporeflexia	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0001290	Generalized hypotonia	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0001072	Thickened skin	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0001270	Motor delay	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0001612	Weak cry	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0000160	Narrow mouth	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0000268	Dolichocephaly	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0000431	Wide nasal bridge	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0001254	Lethargy	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0002058	Myopathic facies	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0002380	Fasciculations	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0002795	Abnormal respiratory system physiology	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0003687	Centrally nucleated skeletal muscle fibers	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0011220	Prominent forehead	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0031139	Frog-leg posture	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0031237	Internally nucleated skeletal muscle fibers	Occasional (5-29%)

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	benign Samaritan congenital myopathy
Mondo ID	MONDO:0017936
Orphanet	324581
UMLS	C4749502
MedGen	1666762
GARD	0021445
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › musculoskeletal system disorder › muscle tissue disorder › skeletal muscle disorder › myopathy › congenital myopathy › benign Samaritan congenital myopathy

Related subtypes (53): Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy, congenital structural myopathy, Bethlem myopathy, MYH7-related skeletal myopathy, tubular aggregate myopathy, cylindrical spirals myopathy, congenital myopathy 7A, myosin storage, autosomal dominant, intellectual disability-myopathy-short stature-endocrine defect syndrome, myopathy, myosin storage, autosomal recessive, Bailey-Bloch congenital myopathy, fingerprint body myopathy, myopathy, proximal, and ophthalmoplegia, Compton-North congenital myopathy, MEGF10-related myopathy, fetal akinesia-cerebral and retinal hemorrhage syndrome, Klippel-Feil anomaly-myopathy-facial dysmorphism syndrome, severe hypotonia-psychomotor developmental delay-strabismus-cardiac septal defect syndrome, myopathy with hexagonally cross-linked tubular arrays, congenital generalized hypercontractile muscle stiffness syndrome, hyaline body myopathy, centronuclear myopathy, reducing body myopathy, myopathy, congenital, with tremor, myopathy, congenital, progressive, with scoliosis, myopathy, congenital, with structured cores and z-line abnormalities, myopathy, congenital, with respiratory insufficiency and bone fractures, myopathy, congenital proximal, with minicore lesions, myopathy, congenital, with diaphragmatic defects, respiratory insufficiency, and dysmorphic facies, congenital myopathy with reduced type 2 muscle fibers, alpha-actinopathy, SELENON-related myopathy, TPM3-related myopathy, SCN4A-related myopathy, autosomal recessive, RYR1-related myopathy, TTN-related myopathy, TPM2-related myopathy, Batten-Turner congenital myopathy, TOR1AIP1-related myopathy, congenital myopathy 11, congenital myopathy 15, congenital myopathy 18, congenital myopathy 10b, mild variant, congenital myopathy 2b, severe infantile, autosomal recessive, congenital myopathy 2c, severe infantile, autosomal dominant, congenital myopathy 20, congenital myopathy 21 with early respiratory failure, congenital myopathy 22A, classic, congenital myopathy 22B, severe fetal, congenital myopathy 25, congenital myopathy 26, congenital myopathy 27, congenital myopathy 28 with rigid spine, congenital myopathy 29 with contractures

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

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 22 · Orphanet: 12 · 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.

Gene	Classification	Inheritance	Disease	Records
RYR1	Definitive	Autosomal dominant	RYR1-related myopathy	22

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
RYR1	Orphanet:169186	Autosomal recessive centronuclear myopathy
RYR1	Orphanet:169189	Autosomal dominant centronuclear myopathy
RYR1	Orphanet:178145	Moderate multiminicore disease with hand involvement
RYR1	Orphanet:324581	Benign Samaritan congenital myopathy
RYR1	Orphanet:33108	Lethal multiple pterygium syndrome
RYR1	Orphanet:423	Malignant hyperthermia of anesthesia
RYR1	Orphanet:424107	Congenital myopathy with myasthenic-like onset
RYR1	Orphanet:466650	Exercise-induced malignant hyperthermia
RYR1	Orphanet:597	Central core disease
RYR1	Orphanet:700188	Calf-predominant weakness-gastrocnemius medialis atrophy-distal myopathy
RYR1	Orphanet:98905	Congenital multicore myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia
RYR1	Orphanet:99741	King-Denborough syndrome

Cohort genes → proteins

1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

Subset	Genes
multi_evidence	1

Cohort genes (full)

Symbol	HGNC	Ensembl	UniProt	Name	Evidence
RYR1	HGNC:10483	ENSG00000196218	P21817	Ryanodine receptor 1	gencc

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
RYR1	Ryanodine receptor 1	Cytosolic calcium-activated calcium channel that mediates the release of Ca(2+) from the sarcoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol and thereby plays a key role in triggering muscle contraction following depolarization of T-tubules.

Protein-family classification

Druggable: 1 · Difficult: 0 · Unknown: 0 · Druggable fraction: 1.0

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.

Family	Genes	Fold	FDR
Ion channel	1	111.5×	0.009

Per-gene assignment

Symbol	Family	Druggable?	EC	InterPro (top 3)
RYR1	Ion channel	yes		RIH_dom, B30.2/SPRY, Ryanodine_rcpt

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)

Bucket	Genes
narrow (1-5 tissues)	0
moderate (6-20)	0
broad (>20)	1
unknown	0

Top tissues across cohort

Tissue	Cohort genes
gastrocnemius	1
gluteal muscle	1
hindlimb stylopod muscle	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
RYR1	214	broad	marker	gluteal muscle, gastrocnemius, hindlimb stylopod muscle

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
RYR1	2,177

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

Symbol	UniProt	PDB entries
RYR1	P21817	2

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 6. Enrichment computed across 1 evidence-associated genes (1 with Reactome annotation).

Pathways 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.

Pathway	Cohort genes	Fold	FDR	Sample cohort genes
Ion homeostasis	1	203.9×	0.016	RYR1
Stimuli-sensing channels	1	135.9×	0.016	RYR1
Cardiac conduction	1	108.8×	0.016	RYR1
Ion channel transport	1	96.0×	0.016	RYR1
Muscle contraction	1	77.2×	0.016	RYR1
Transport of small molecules	1	25.1×	0.040	RYR1

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 term	Cohort genes	Fold	FDR	Sample cohort genes
response to caffeine	1	2407.4×	0.003	RYR1
release of sequestered calcium ion into cytosol by sarcoplasmic reticulum	1	1685.2×	0.003	RYR1
cellular response to caffeine	1	1532.0×	0.003	RYR1
ossification involved in bone maturation	1	1404.3×	0.003	RYR1
striated muscle contraction	1	842.6×	0.004	RYR1
skeletal muscle fiber development	1	543.6×	0.005	RYR1
skin development	1	443.5×	0.005	RYR1
regulation of cytosolic calcium ion concentration	1	383.0×	0.005	RYR1
release of sequestered calcium ion into cytosol	1	343.9×	0.005	RYR1
outflow tract morphogenesis	1	306.4×	0.005	RYR1
protein homotetramerization	1	237.3×	0.006	RYR1
muscle contraction	1	208.1×	0.006	RYR1
cellular response to calcium ion	1	200.6×	0.006	RYR1
calcium ion transport	1	181.2×	0.006	RYR1
response to hypoxia	1	95.8×	0.010	RYR1

Therapeutics

Drug target analysis

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

Druggability breadth: 1 of 1 evidence-associated genes (100%) have a ChEMBL target (buckets above are over the deeply-mined display cohort).

Top cohort targets by molecule count

Symbol	Molecules	Max phase
RYR1	0	0

Bioactivity and enzyme data

Enzyme cohort genes (≥1 EC): 0.

Cohort genes with ChEMBL bioactivity (full, sorted by assay count)

Symbol	Assays	Type breakdown
RYR1	16	Binding:13, Functional:3

Pharmacogenomics

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

Cohort genes with a CPIC/DPWG dosing guideline

Symbol	CPIC guidelines
RYR1	1

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):

Tier	Definition	Genes	Symbols
A	Approved (phase 4 drug)	0
B	Phased (≥1) drug, not yet approved	0
C	Druggable family + PDB, no drug	1	RYR1
D	Druggable family + AlphaFold only, no drug	0
E	Difficult family or no structure, no drug	0

Undrugged target profiles

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

Symbol	ChEMBL assays	Drugged partners (top 3)
RYR1	16	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.