Isolated congenital syngnathia

Summary

Isolated congenital syngnathia (MONDO:0015409) is a disease caused by VGLL2 (GenCC Strong), with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Causal gene: VGLL2 (GenCC Strong)
• Cohort genes: 1

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	isolated congenital syngnathia
Mondo ID	MONDO:0015409
Orphanet	141214
SNOMED CT	763317002
UMLS	C4706392
MedGen	1635309
GARD	0019962
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Also known as: isolated congenital maxillomandibular fusion

Data availability: 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by developmental or physiological process › disorder of development or morphogenesis › isolated congenital syngnathia

Related subtypes (189): precocious puberty, complex cortical dysplasia with other brain malformations, imperforate anus, microcephaly, demyelinating disease, hypospadias, bone development disease, primary basilar invagination, familial bicuspid aortic valve, camptodactyly of fingers, isolated congenital digital clubbing, aorta coarctation, gingival fibromatosis-progressive deafness syndrome, Eng-Strom syndrome, Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome, familial partial lipodystrophy, Dunnigan type, megalodactyly, odontomatosis-aortae esophagus stenosis syndrome, otodental syndrome, oculodental syndrome, Rutherfurd type, spina bifida, steatocystoma multiplex-natal teeth syndrome, distal symphalangism, thumb deformity-alopecia-pigmentation anomaly syndrome, double uterus-hemivagina-renal agenesis syndrome, amelogenesis imperfecta type 1G, Bloom syndrome, cardiac valvular defect, developmental, isolated cerebellar hypoplasia/agenesis, cleft palate-stapes fixation-oligodontia syndrome, Jalili syndrome, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, craniofacial dyssynostosis, deafness-oligodontia syndrome, duodenal atresia, Fowler syndrome, multiple intestinal atresia, natal teeth-intestinal pseudoobstruction-patent ductus syndrome, atresia of small intestine, mulibrey nanism, oculocerebral hypopigmentation syndrome, Cross type, familial osteodysplasia, Anderson type, pancreatic agenesis, postaxial polydactyly-dental and vertebral anomalies syndrome, familial primary pulmonary hypoplasia, renal tubular dysgenesis of genetic origin, Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, familial isolated congenital asplenia, subaortic stenosis, membranous, non-eruption of teeth-maxillary hypoplasia-genu valgum syndrome, corpus callosum agenesis-intellectual disability-coloboma-micrognathia syndrome, CK syndrome, Ogden syndrome, Nance-Horan syndrome, colonic atresia, Aicardi syndrome, torticollis-keloids-cryptorchidism-renal dysplasia syndrome, 46,XY complete gonadal dysgenesis, loose anagen syndrome, lung agenesis-heart defect-thumb anomalies syndrome, Chudley-McCullough syndrome, macrocephaly-autism syndrome, DNA ligase IV deficiency, horizontal gaze palsy with progressive scoliosis, cataract - congenital heart disease - neural tube defect syndrome, autosomal recessive frontotemporal pachygyria, craniofacial dysplasia - osteopenia syndrome, porencephaly-microcephaly-bilateral congenital cataract syndrome, congenital short bowel syndrome, familial median cleft of the upper and lower lips, progeroid features-hepatocellular carcinoma predisposition syndrome, progressive microcephaly-seizures-cortical blindness-developmental delay syndrome, aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva, blepharoptosis-cleft palate-ectrodactyly-dental anomalies syndrome, medullary sponge kidney, cleft lip and alveolus, diprosopus, T-B+ severe combined immunodeficiency due to IL-7Ralpha deficiency, high anorectal malformation, intermediate anorectal malformation, low anorectal malformation, microcephaly-polymicrogyria-corpus callosum agenesis syndrome, cordiform uterus, septate uterus, bicornuate uterus, uterine hypoplasia, agenesis and aplasia of uterine body, uterine cervical aplasia and agenesis, longitudinal vaginal septum, transverse vaginal septum, axial mesodermal dysplasia spectrum, multicystic dysplastic kidney, diabetic embryopathy, congenital microgastria, isolated cleft lip, cleft lip/palate, hereditary gingival fibromatosis, congenital bronchobiliary fistula, congenital hydrocephalus, maternal hyperthermia induced birth defects, diphallia, epibulbar lipodermoid-preauricular appendage-polythelia syndrome, bronchogenic cyst, duplication of urethra, hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, Lowe-Kohn-Cohen syndrome, biliary atresia with splenic malformation syndrome, congenital pulmonary airway malformation, familial intestinal malrotation-facial anomalies syndrome, megalencephaly, cephalocele, cerebral cortical dysplasia, L1 syndrome, familial omphalocele syndrome with facial dysmorphism, penoscrotal transposition, pericardial and diaphragmatic defect, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism-severe microcephaly-sensorineural hearing loss-dysmorphism syndrome, congenital deformities of limbs, familial isolated clinodactyly of fingers, congenital shoulder dislocation, congenital elbow dislocation, congenital knee dislocation, congenital patella dislocation, macrodactyly of fingers, macrodactyly of toes, upper limb hypertrophy, lower limb hypertrophy, duplication of the pituitary gland, diencephalic-mesencephalic junction dysplasia, steroid dehydrogenase deficiency-dental anomalies syndrome, congenital achiasma, tracheal agenesis, renal agenesis, hypomyelination-cerebellar atrophy-hypoplasia of the corpus callosum syndrome, isolated splenogonadal fusion, Joubert syndrome, congenital generalized hypercontractile muscle stiffness syndrome, congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens, congenital portosystemic shunt, lissencephaly spectrum disorders, Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy, congenital primary megaureter, craniorachischisis, vaginal atresia, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dentinogenesis imperfecta-short stature-hearing loss-intellectual disability syndrome, aniridia, atypical Werner syndrome, X-linked intellectual disability-corpus callosum agenesis-spastic quadriparesis syndrome, anterior segment dysgenesis, congenital esophageal diverticulum, renal hypoplasia, renal dysplasia, overgrowth syndrome, developmental defect during embryogenesis, acalvaria, congenital aortic valve insufficiency, congenital anomaly of superior vena cava, congenital anomaly of hepatic vein, posterior hypospadias, isolated micropenis, isolated partial vaginal agenesis, anorectal malformation, pulmonary agenesis, congenital tricuspid malformation, Noonan syndrome and Noonan-related syndrome, coronary sinus stenosis, coronary sinus atresia, cartilage development disorder, syndactyly, polydactyly, brachydactyly, neurocristopathy, congenital absence of septum pellucidum, branchial arch disease, congenital anomaly of cardiovascular system, atelencephaly, aprosencephaly, aortic valve stenosis, hereditary lethal multiple congenital anomalies/dysmorphic syndrome, congenital agenesis of the scrotum, keratinization disease, lactation disease, COACH syndrome, constitutional delay of growth and puberty, isolated congenital femoral bifurcation, congenital peritoneal encapsulation, isolated short stature, congenital high airway obstruction syndrome

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: 1 · 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.

Gene	Classification	Inheritance	Disease	Records
VGLL2	Strong	Autosomal recessive	isolated congenital syngnathia

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
VGLL2	HGNC:20232	ENSG00000170162	Q8N8G2	Transcription cofactor vestigial-like protein 2	gencc

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
VGLL2	Transcription cofactor vestigial-like protein 2	May act as a specific coactivator for the mammalian TEFs.

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.

Family	Genes	Fold	FDR
Other/Unknown	1	1.8×	0.558

Per-gene assignment

Symbol	Family	Druggable?	EC	InterPro (top 3)
VGLL2	Other/Unknown	no		Vg_fam

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)	1
unknown	0

Top tissues across cohort

Tissue	Cohort genes
hindlimb stylopod muscle	1
skeletal muscle tissue of rectus abdominis	1
tibialis anterior	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
VGLL2	86	tissue_specific	yes	skeletal muscle tissue of rectus abdominis, hindlimb stylopod muscle, tibialis anterior

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
VGLL2	315

Structural data

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

AlphaFold-only cohort genes (top 30 by pLDDT)

Symbol	UniProt	pLDDT
VGLL2	Q8N8G2	55.14

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 term	Cohort genes	Fold	FDR	Sample cohort genes
skeletal muscle tissue development	1	290.6×	0.010	VGLL2
positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II	1	14.9×	0.086	VGLL2
regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II	1	11.7×	0.086	VGLL2

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

Symbol	Molecules	Max phase
VGLL2	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	1	VGLL2

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)
VGLL2	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.