Mucopolysaccharidosis or mucopolysaccharidosis-like disorder

Summary

Mucopolysaccharidosis or mucopolysaccharidosis-like disorder (MONDO:0100365) is a disease caused by VPS16 (GenCC Strong), with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Causal gene: VPS16 (GenCC Strong)
• Cohort genes: 1

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	mucopolysaccharidosis or mucopolysaccharidosis-like disorder
Mondo ID	MONDO:0100365
GARD	0026154
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

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 disease › inborn errors of metabolism › mucopolysaccharidosis or mucopolysaccharidosis-like disorder

Related subtypes (92): thiopurine metabolic disease, hypercalcemia, infantile, hypermanganesemia with dystonia, abdominal obesity-metabolic syndrome, plasma protein metabolism disease, inherited lipid metabolism disorder, lysosomal storage disease, striatonigral degeneration, inborn metal metabolism disorder, inborn vitamin metabolic disorder, chondrocalcinosis 2, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, spondylodysplastic type, fish eye disease, aromatase excess syndrome, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia with congenital joint dislocations, hypertriglyceridemia 1, autosomal dominant myoglobinuria, diastrophic dysplasia, hemolytic anemia due to diphosphoglycerate mutase deficiency, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia type 4, atelosteogenesis type II, inherited threoninemia, inborn glycerol kinase deficiency, achondrogenesis type IB, diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent, 1, diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent, 2, renal tubular acidosis, distal, 3, with or without sensorineural hearing loss, diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent, 3, hypercholesterolemia, familial, 4, hypoalphalipoproteinemia, primary, 1, autosomal recessive proximal renal tubular acidosis, diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent, 4, normophosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis, apolipoprotein c-III deficiency, hypotonia-failure to thrive-microcephaly syndrome, chondrodysplasia with joint dislocations, gPAPP type, gluthathione peroxidase deficiency, congenital microcephaly - severe encephalopathy - progressive cerebral atrophy syndrome, diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent, 5, congenital disorder of glycosylation, monogenic diabetes, 2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, familial hypoparathyroidism, familial intrahepatic cholestasis, inborn aminoacylase deficiency, disorder of lysosomal-related organelles, inborn disorder of porphyrin metabolism, disorder of metabolite absorption and transport, autosomal dominant proximal renal tubular acidosis, neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation, ferro-cerebro-cutaneous syndrome, familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, hypophosphatasia, hereditary amyloidosis, peroxisomal disease, inborn disorder of amino acid and other organic acid metabolism, inborn carbohydrate metabolic disorder, inborn disorder of energy metabolism, inborn disorder of biogenic amine metabolism and transport, inborn disorder of purine or pyrimidine metabolism, spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, PAPSS2 type, hereditary lipodystrophy, hereditary recurrent myoglobinuria, DNA repair disease, 4-hydroxyphenylacetic aciduria, 5-nucleotidase syndrome, antigen-peptide-transporter 2 deficiency, APO A-i deficiency, cardiomyopathy hypogonadism metabolic anomalies, deficiency of coenzyme q cytochrome c reductase, defective apolipoprotein b-100, sulfide quinone oxidoreductase deficiency, congenital disorder of deglycosylation, hypoalphalipoproteinemia, primary, 2, uridine-cytidineuria, NAD(P)HX dehydratase deficiency, inborn disorder of aspartate family metabolism, weinstein kliman scully syndrome, glycoprotein metabolism disease, inherited thyroid metabolism disease, tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 2, tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 3, combined ApoA-I and ApoC-III deficiency, familial hyperphosphatemic tumoral calcinosis/hyperphosphatemic hyperostosis syndrome, tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 1, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, disorder of peptide and amine metabolism, CFTR-related metabolic syndrome/CF screen positive, inconclusive diagnosis, Lane Hamilton syndrome, SQSTM1-related multisystem proteinopathy, hypertriglyceridemia 2, autosomal dominant dopa-responsive dystonia

Subtypes (2): mucopolysaccharidosis-plus syndrome, mucopolysaccharidosis

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: 5 · 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
VPS16	Strong	Autosomal recessive	mucopolysaccharidosis or mucopolysaccharidosis-like disorder	5

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
VPS16	HGNC:14584	ENSG00000215305	Q9H269	Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 16 homolog	gencc

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
VPS16	Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 16 homolog	Plays a role in vesicle-mediated protein trafficking to lysosomal compartments including the endocytic membrane transport and autophagic pathways.

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)
VPS16	Other/Unknown	no		Vps16_C, Vps16_N, VPS16

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
cerebellar hemisphere	1
granulocyte	1
right hemisphere of cerebellum	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
VPS16	275	ubiquitous	marker	granulocyte, right hemisphere of cerebellum, cerebellar hemisphere

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
VPS16	1,832

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

Symbol	UniProt	PDB entries
VPS16	Q9H269	1

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.

Pathway	Cohort genes	Fold	FDR	Sample cohort genes
SARS-CoV-2 modulates autophagy	1	1038.2×	1e-03	VPS16

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
vacuole fusion, non-autophagic	1	5617.3×	0.001	VPS16
regulation of SNARE complex assembly	1	1296.3×	0.002	VPS16
endosomal vesicle fusion	1	1123.5×	0.002	VPS16
autophagosome maturation	1	351.1×	0.004	VPS16
endosome to lysosome transport	1	337.0×	0.004	VPS16
endosomal transport	1	244.2×	0.005	VPS16
intracellular protein transport	1	64.8×	0.015	VPS16

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
VPS16	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	VPS16

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)
VPS16	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.