Hypercholanemia, familial

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Also known as familial hypercholanemia

Summary

Hypercholanemia, familial (MONDO:0100327) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

  • Cohort genes: 1
  • ClinVar variants: 5

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical namehypercholanemia, familial
Mondo IDMONDO:0100327
OMIM607748
UMLSC1843139
MedGen334689
GARD0026146
Is cancer (heuristic)no

Also known as: familial hypercholanemia · hypercholanemia, familial

Data availability: 5 ClinVar variants.

Disease family

An umbrella term covering 2 Mondo subtypes.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of genetic or genomic mechanism › hereditary diseaseinborn errors of metabolism › inborn disorder of amino acid and other organic acid metabolism › inborn disorder of bile acid synthesis › hypercholanemia, familial

Related subtypes (4): cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, hypercholesterolemia due to cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase deficiency, bile acid CoA ligase deficiency and defective amidation, idiopathic malabsorption due to bile acid synthesis defects

Subtypes (2): hypercholanemia, familial, 2, hypercholanemia, familial 1

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

5 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

4 pathogenic, 1 conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

ClinVarVariant (HGVS)GeneClassificationReview
2577971NM_016145.4(WDR83OS):c.255-4_260delWDR83Pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
3336829NM_016145.4(WDR83OS):c.50+1G>TWDR83Pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
3336830NM_016145.4(WDR83OS):c.156+2T>AWDR83Pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
3337986NM_016145.4(WDR83OS):c.235C>T (p.Gln79Ter)WDR83Pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
1329852NM_016145.4(WDR83OS):c.156+1G>TWDR83Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

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

Cohort genes → proteins

1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

SubsetGenes
multi_evidence1

Cohort genes (full)

SymbolHGNCEnsemblUniProtNameEvidence
WDR83HGNC:32672ENSG00000123154Q9BRX9WD repeat domain-containing protein 83clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

SymbolProtein nameFunction (lead sentence)
WDR83WD repeat domain-containing protein 83Molecular scaffold protein for various multimeric protein complexes.

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
Scaffold/PPI117.3×0.058

Per-gene assignment

SymbolFamilyDruggable?ECInterPro (top 3)
WDR83Scaffold/PPInoWD40_rpt, WD40/YVTN_repeat-like_dom_sf, WD40_repeat_CS

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
cerebellar cortex1
cerebellar hemisphere1
right hemisphere of cerebellum1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

SymbolBgee breadthFANTOM5 breadthSCXATop tissues
WDR83182ubiquitousmarkerright hemisphere of cerebellum, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellar cortex

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

SymbolInteractor count
WDR831,882

Structural data

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

AlphaFold-only cohort genes (top 30 by pLDDT)

SymbolUniProtpLDDT
WDR83Q9BRX993.44

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 1. 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.

PathwayCohort genesFoldFDRSample cohort genes
MAP2K and MAPK activation1285.5×0.004WDR83

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
inflammatory response to wounding12106.5×0.003WDR83
placenta blood vessel development11404.3×0.003WDR83
RNA splicing, via transesterification reactions1624.1×0.004WDR83
regulation of canonical NF-kappaB signal transduction1481.5×0.004WDR83
neural tube closure1187.2×0.009WDR83
response to lipopolysaccharide1124.8×0.011WDR83
response to hypoxia195.8×0.011WDR83
mRNA splicing, via spliceosome191.6×0.011WDR83

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
WDR8300

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 drug1WDR83

Undrugged target profiles

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

SymbolChEMBL assaysDrugged partners (top 3)
WDR830

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.