brachydactyly type C

Summary

brachydactyly type C (MONDO:0007221) is a disease caused by GDF5 (GenCC Definitive), with 2 cohort genes.

At a glance

• Prevalence: Unknown (Worldwide)
• Causal gene: GDF5 (GenCC Definitive)
• Cohort genes: 2
• ClinVar variants: 17
• Phenotypes (HPO): 14

Clinical features

Signs & symptoms

Clinical features (HPO)

14 HPO clinical features (Orphanet curated; top 14 by frequency):

HPO ID	Term	Frequency
HP:0005819	Short middle phalanx of finger	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0009373	Type C brachydactyly	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0009465	Ulnar deviation of finger	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0009495	Pseudoepiphyses of the 2nd finger	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0010026	Aplasia/Hypoplasia of the 1st metacarpal	Very frequent (80-99%)
HP:0001231	Abnormal fingernail morphology	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0009606	Complete duplication of distal phalanx of the thumb	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0009684	Stippling of the epiphysis of the distal phalanx of the thumb	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0010579	Cone-shaped epiphysis	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0010743	Short metatarsal	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0004209	Clinodactyly of the 5th finger	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0004322	Short stature	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0009773	Symphalangism affecting the phalanges of the hand	Occasional (5-29%)
HP:0010508	Metatarsus valgus	Occasional (5-29%)

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	brachydactyly type C
Mondo ID	MONDO:0007221
MeSH	C537093
OMIM	113100
Orphanet	93384
DOID	DOID:0110970
ICD-11	956707061
UMLS	C1862103
MedGen	350590
GARD	0000986
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Also known as: brachydactyly Haws type · brachydactyly type C · brachydactyly, type C

Data availability: 17 ClinVar variants · 2 GenCC gene-disease records.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of genetic or genomic mechanism › hereditary disease › brachydactyly › brachydactyly type C

Related subtypes (21): Cooks syndrome, brachydactyly-arterial hypertension syndrome, Ballard syndrome, brachydactyly type A1, brachydactyly type A2, brachydactyly type A3, brachydactyly type A4, Osebold-Remondini syndrome, brachydactyly type D, camptobrachydactyly, brachydactyly type A1B, brachydactyly type A1C, brachydactyly type A1D, non-syndromic brachydactyly, brachydactyly type B, brachydactyly type E, brachydactyly type A5, brachydactyly type A7, brachydactyly type A1A, Berk-Tabatznik syndrome, preaxial digit brachydactyly-webbed fingers

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

17 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

7 pathogenic, 4 uncertain significance, 3 likely pathogenic, 2 pathogenic/likely pathogenic, 1 conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

ClinVar	Variant (HGVS)	Gene	Classification	Review
1074614	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.992del (p.Arg331fs)	GDF5	Pathogenic	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
3377359	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.490_491dup (p.Pro165fs)	GDF5	Pathogenic	criteria provided, single submitter
817567	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.788_810dup (p.Gly271Ter)	GDF5	Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
8378	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.901C>T (p.Arg301Ter)	GDF5	Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
8382	GDF5, 23-BP INS, NT811	GDF5	Pathogenic	no assertion criteria provided
8384	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.517A>G (p.Met173Val)	GDF5	Pathogenic	no assertion criteria provided
8385	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.205dup (p.Ala69fs)	GDF5	Pathogenic	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
8391	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.1461T>G (p.Tyr487Ter)	GDF5	Pathogenic	no assertion criteria provided
997971	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.349del (p.Ala117fs)	GDF5	Pathogenic	criteria provided, single submitter
265991	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.1397G>A (p.Cys466Tyr)	GDF5	Likely pathogenic	no assertion criteria provided
3764682	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.784del (p.Gln262fs)	GDF5	Likely pathogenic	criteria provided, single submitter
4819326	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.1166del (p.Gly389fs)	GDF5	Likely pathogenic	criteria provided, single submitter
2631825	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.1420A>T (p.Ile474Phe)	GDF5-AS1	Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity	criteria provided, conflicting classifications
1019956	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.1198_1200dup (p.Cys400dup)	GDF5	Uncertain significance	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
2082619	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.152C>T (p.Pro51Leu)	GDF5	Uncertain significance	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
2143629	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.519G>A (p.Met173Ile)	GDF5	Uncertain significance	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
3893112	NM_000557.5(GDF5):c.71C>G (p.Thr24Ser)	GDF5	Uncertain significance	criteria provided, single submitter

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 20 · Orphanet: 9 · 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
GDF5	Definitive	Semidominant	brachydactyly type C	20

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
GDF5	Orphanet:2098	Acromesomelic dysplasia, Grebe type
GDF5	Orphanet:2639	Fibular aplasia-complex brachydactyly syndrome
GDF5	Orphanet:3237	Multiple synostoses syndrome
GDF5	Orphanet:3250	Proximal symphalangism
GDF5	Orphanet:63442	Angel-shaped phalango-epiphyseal dysplasia
GDF5	Orphanet:93384	Brachydactyly type C
GDF5	Orphanet:93388	Brachydactyly type A1
GDF5	Orphanet:93396	Brachydactyly type A2
GDF5	Orphanet:968	Acromesomelic dysplasia, Hunter-Thompson type

Cohort genes → proteins

2 cohort genes, 2 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

Subset	Genes
multi_evidence	2

Cohort genes (full)

Symbol	HGNC	Ensembl	UniProt	Name	Evidence
GDF5	HGNC:4220	ENSG00000125965	P43026	Growth/differentiation factor 5	gencc,clinvar
GDF5-AS1	HGNC:33435	ENSG00000204183	Q5U4N7	Protein GDF5-AS1, mitochondrial	clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
GDF5	Growth/differentiation factor 5	Growth factor involved in bone and cartilage formation.

Protein-family classification

Druggable: 0 · Difficult: 0 · Unknown: 2 · 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.

Family	Genes	Fold	FDR
Other/Unknown	2	1.8×	0.312

Per-gene assignment

Symbol	Family	Druggable?	EC	InterPro (top 3)
GDF5	Other/Unknown	no		TGF-b_propeptide, TGF-b_C, TGF-beta-like
GDF5-AS1	Other/Unknown	no		GDF5OS

Expression context

Cohort genes with no expression data: 0.

Breadth distribution (Bgee present_calls)

Bucket	Genes
narrow (1-5 tissues)	0
moderate (6-20)	0
broad (>20)	2
unknown	0

Top tissues across cohort

Tissue	Cohort genes
cartilage tissue	1
parotid gland	1
pericardium	1
colonic epithelium	1
cortical plate	1
ventricular zone	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
GDF5	116	broad	yes	parotid gland, pericardium, cartilage tissue
GDF5-AS1	68		yes	colonic epithelium, cortical plate, ventricular zone

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
GDF5	1,486
GDF5-AS1	15

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

Symbol	UniProt	PDB entries
GDF5	P43026	15

AlphaFold-only cohort genes (top 30 by pLDDT)

Symbol	UniProt	pLDDT
GDF5-AS1	Q5U4N7	58.79

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 1. Enrichment computed across 2 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
Molecules associated with elastic fibres	1	308.6×	0.003	GDF5

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
ossification involved in bone remodeling	1	5617.3×	0.002	GDF5
chondroblast differentiation	1	3370.4×	0.002	GDF5
hindlimb morphogenesis	1	2808.7×	0.002	GDF5
negative regulation of mesenchymal cell apoptotic process	1	2407.4×	0.002	GDF5
forelimb morphogenesis	1	2106.5×	0.002	GDF5
mesenchymal cell apoptotic process	1	1532.0×	0.002	GDF5
positive regulation of chondrocyte differentiation	1	802.5×	0.003	GDF5
negative regulation of chondrocyte differentiation	1	674.1×	0.003	GDF5
regulation of multicellular organism growth	1	648.1×	0.003	GDF5
positive regulation of BMP signaling pathway	1	455.5×	0.004	GDF5
embryonic limb morphogenesis	1	401.2×	0.004	GDF5
positive regulation of SMAD protein signal transduction	1	383.0×	0.004	GDF5
chondrocyte differentiation	1	300.9×	0.005	GDF5
response to mechanical stimulus	1	300.9×	0.005	GDF5
negative regulation of epithelial cell proliferation	1	290.6×	0.005	GDF5
BMP signaling pathway	1	200.6×	0.006	GDF5
positive regulation of neuron differentiation	1	198.3×	0.006	GDF5
transforming growth factor beta receptor signaling pathway	1	159.0×	0.007	GDF5
negative regulation of neuron apoptotic process	1	110.9×	0.009	GDF5
cell-cell signaling	1	69.6×	0.014	GDF5

Therapeutics

Drug target analysis

Approved (phase 4): 0 · Phase ≥3: 0 · Phased (≥1): 0 · Undrugged: 2

Druggability breadth: 0 of 2 evidence-associated genes (0%) have a ChEMBL target (buckets above are over the deeply-mined display cohort).

Top cohort targets by molecule count

Symbol	Molecules	Max phase
GDF5	0	0
GDF5-AS1	0	0

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):

Tier	Definition	Genes	Symbols
A	Approved (phase 4 drug)	0
B	Phased (≥1) drug, not yet approved	0
C	Druggable family + PDB, no drug	0
D	Druggable family + AlphaFold only, no drug	0
E	Difficult family or no structure, no drug	2	GDF5, GDF5-AS1

Undrugged target profiles

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

Symbol	ChEMBL assays	Drugged partners (top 3)
GDF5	0	—
GDF5-AS1	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.