Macular degeneration, age-related, 3

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Also known as age-related macular degeneration caused by mutation in FBLN5ARMD3FBLN5 age-related macular degenerationHNARMDmacular Degeneration, age-related, type 3

Summary

Macular degeneration, age-related, 3 (MONDO:0012145) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

  • Cohort genes: 1
  • ClinVar variants: 67

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical namemacular degeneration, age-related, 3
Mondo IDMONDO:0012145
MeSHC563838
OMIM608895
UMLSC1837187
MedGen373276
GARD0024848
Is cancer (heuristic)no

Also known as: age-related macular degeneration caused by mutation in FBLN5 · ARMD3 · FBLN5 age-related macular degeneration · HNARMD · macular degeneration, age-related, 3 · macular Degeneration, age-related, type 3

Data availability: 67 ClinVar variants · 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › nervous system disorderretinal disorderretinal degenerationmacular degenerationdegeneration of macula and posterior poleage-related macular degenerationmacular degeneration, age-related, 3

Related subtypes (14): wet macular degeneration, age related macular degeneration 2, age related macular degeneration 1, age related macular degeneration 7, age related macular degeneration 4, age related macular degeneration 9, age related macular degeneration 10, age related macular degeneration 11, age related macular degeneration 6, age related macular degeneration 8, age related macular degeneration 12, age related macular degeneration 14, macular dystrophy with central cone involvement, dry age related macular degeneration

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

67 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

32 uncertain significance, 15 conflicting classifications of pathogenicity, 11 benign, 8 benign/likely benign, 1 pathogenic

ClinVarVariant (HGVS)GeneClassificationReview
689758NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.1201_1202del (p.Ser401fs)FBLN5Pathogeniccriteria provided, single submitter
21453NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.604G>A (p.Gly202Arg)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
218359NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.268G>A (p.Gly90Ser)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
218360NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.376G>A (p.Val126Met)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
287193NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.621T>C (p.Asp207=)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
314861NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.*648G>AFBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
314871NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.1191G>A (p.Thr397=)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
314874NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.989+9C>TFBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
314875NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.862+12C>TFBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
314877NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.676G>A (p.Gly226Ser)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
5479NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.259C>T (p.Pro87Ser)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicityno assertion criteria provided
5480NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.506T>C (p.Ile169Thr)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicityno assertion criteria provided
5482NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.1087G>A (p.Ala363Thr)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
885290NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.1241G>A (p.Arg414Gln)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
886256NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.573A>G (p.Thr191=)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
887258NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.273G>A (p.Pro91=)FBLN5Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
1172837NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.245A>C (p.Asn82Thr)FBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1342917NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.992G>A (p.Arg331His)FBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1463161NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.1076G>A (p.Arg359His)FBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
1519738NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.834C>G (p.Ile278Met)FBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
314859NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.*775A>CFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314860NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.*653G>AFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314865NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.*458T>CFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314867NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.*363C>TFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314870NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.*98G>AFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314879NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.388G>A (p.Glu130Lys)FBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314880NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.251A>G (p.Tyr84Cys)FBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
314884NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.-139C>TFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314886NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.-382C>GFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter
314887NM_006329.4(FBLN5):c.-389C>AFBLN5Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 14 · Orphanet: 3 · 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
FBLN5ModerateAutosomal dominantmacular degeneration, age-related, 314

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

GeneOrphanet IDRare disease
FBLN5Orphanet:280598Hereditary sensorimotor neuropathy with hyperelastic skin
FBLN5Orphanet:90348Autosomal dominant cutis laxa
FBLN5Orphanet:90349Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 1

Cohort genes → proteins

1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

SubsetGenes
multi_evidence1

Cohort genes (full)

SymbolHGNCEnsemblUniProtNameEvidence
FBLN5HGNC:3602ENSG00000140092Q9UBX5Fibulin-5gencc,clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

SymbolProtein nameFunction (lead sentence)
FBLN5Fibulin-5Essential for elastic fiber formation, is involved in the assembly of continuous elastin (ELN) polymer and promotes the interaction of microfibrils and ELN.

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.

FamilyGenesFoldFDR
Other/Unknown11.8×0.558

Per-gene assignment

SymbolFamilyDruggable?ECInterPro (top 3)
FBLN5Other/UnknownnoEGF-type_Asp/Asn_hydroxyl_site, EGF, EGF-like_Ca-bd_dom

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
ascending aorta1
descending thoracic aorta1
thoracic aorta1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

SymbolBgee breadthFANTOM5 breadthSCXATop tissues
FBLN5261ubiquitousmarkerthoracic aorta, ascending aorta, descending thoracic aorta

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

SymbolInteractor count
FBLN52,301

Structural data

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

AlphaFold-only cohort genes (top 30 by pLDDT)

SymbolUniProtpLDDT
FBLN5Q9UBX583.69

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 2. 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
Elastic fibre formation1335.9×0.003FBLN5
Molecules associated with elastic fibres1308.6×0.003FBLN5

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
intramembranous bone growth116852.0×6e-04FBLN5
regulation of removal of superoxide radicals12808.7×0.002FBLN5
secretion12106.5×0.002FBLN5
elastic fiber assembly11532.0×0.002FBLN5
positive regulation of osteoblast proliferation11203.7×0.002FBLN5
protein localization to cell surface1495.6×0.003FBLN5
negative regulation of angiogenesis1168.5×0.008FBLN5
cell-matrix adhesion1163.6×0.008FBLN5
negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II117.7×0.063FBLN5
positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II114.9×0.067FBLN5

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
FBLN500

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 drug1FBLN5

Undrugged target profiles

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

SymbolChEMBL assaysDrugged partners (top 3)
FBLN50

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.