Neonatal/infantile epilepsy syndrome

Summary

Neonatal/infantile epilepsy syndrome (MONDO:0100022) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Cohort genes: 1
• ClinVar variants: 1

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	neonatal/infantile epilepsy syndrome
Mondo ID	MONDO:0100022
Orphanet	693802
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 ClinVar variant.

Disease family

An umbrella term covering 3 Mondo subtypes.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › nervous system disorder › central nervous system disorder › brain disorder › epilepsy › epilepsy syndrome › neonatal/infantile epilepsy syndrome

Related subtypes (7): adolescence-adult electroclinical syndrome, benign focal seizures of adolescence, neonatal epilepsy syndrome, infantile epilepsy syndrome, childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome, myoclonic epilepsy, variable age epilepsy syndrome

Subtypes (3): myoclonic encephalopathy in non-progressive disorder, neonatal/infantile-onset self-limited epilepsy syndrome, neonatal/infantile-onset epilepsy syndrome with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

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

1 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

1 pathogenic/likely pathogenic

ClinVar	Variant (HGVS)	Gene	Classification	Review
7385	NM_172107.4(KCNQ2):c.640C>T (p.Arg214Trp)	KCNQ2	Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 0 · Orphanet: 6 · OMIM-shared: 0 · Dual-evidence (GWAS+Mendelian): 0

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
KCNQ2	Orphanet:140927	Self-limited neonatal-infantile epilepsy
KCNQ2	Orphanet:178469	Autosomal dominant non-syndromic intellectual disability
KCNQ2	Orphanet:1949	Self-limited neonatal epilepsy
KCNQ2	Orphanet:293181	Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures
KCNQ2	Orphanet:306	Self-limited infantile epilepsy
KCNQ2	Orphanet:439218	KCNQ2-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

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
KCNQ2	HGNC:6296	ENSG00000075043	O43526	Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily KQT member 2	clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
KCNQ2	Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily KQT member 2	Pore-forming subunit of the voltage-gated potassium (Kv) M-channel which is responsible for the M-current, a key controller of neuronal excitability.

Protein-family classification

Druggable: 1 · Difficult: 0 · Unknown: 0 · Druggable fraction: 1.0

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
Ion channel	1	111.5×	0.009

Per-gene assignment

Symbol	Family	Druggable?	EC	InterPro (top 3)
KCNQ2	Ion channel	yes		K_chnl_volt-dep_KCNQ, K_chnl_volt-dep_KCNQ2, Ion_trans_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)

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

Top tissues across cohort

Tissue	Cohort genes
cerebellar cortex	1
cerebellar hemisphere	1
right hemisphere of cerebellum	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
KCNQ2	183	broad	marker	right hemisphere of cerebellum, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellar cortex

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
KCNQ2	3,388

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

Symbol	UniProt	PDB entries
KCNQ2	O43526	39

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 8. 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
Interaction between L1 and Ankyrins	1	368.4×	0.016	KCNQ2
Voltage gated Potassium channels	1	243.0×	0.016	KCNQ2
Potassium Channels	1	134.3×	0.017	KCNQ2
L1CAM interactions	1	120.2×	0.017	KCNQ2
Axon guidance	1	45.1×	0.027	KCNQ2
Neuronal System	1	44.3×	0.027	KCNQ2
Nervous system development	1	42.9×	0.027	KCNQ2
Developmental Biology	1	14.5×	0.069	KCNQ2

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
action potential	1	358.6×	0.011	KCNQ2
potassium ion transmembrane transport	1	135.9×	0.015	KCNQ2
chemical synaptic transmission	1	77.3×	0.017	KCNQ2
nervous system development	1	45.9×	0.022	KCNQ2

Therapeutics

Drug target analysis

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

Druggability breadth: 1 of 1 evidence-associated genes (100%) have a ChEMBL target (buckets above are over the deeply-mined display cohort).

Genes with an approved drug

The molecule shown is one approved compound that hits the gene — not necessarily a drug of choice or one indicated for this disease.

Symbol	Example approved molecule
KCNQ2	FLUPIRTINE

Top cohort targets by molecule count

Symbol	Molecules	Max phase
KCNQ2	4	4

Drugs targeting cohort genes (top 30)

Molecule	Max phase	Targets in cohort
FLUPIRTINE	4	KCNQ2
EZOGABINE	4	KCNQ2
FLINDOKALNER	3	KCNQ2
AZETUKALNER	3	KCNQ2

Bioactivity and enzyme data

Enzyme cohort genes (≥1 EC): 0.

Cohort genes with ChEMBL bioactivity (full, sorted by assay count)

Symbol	Assays	Type breakdown
KCNQ2	145	Binding:136, Functional:7, ADMET:1, Toxicity:1

Cohort genes with high screening signal

≥100 ChEMBL assays — a studied-ness signal; see Therapeutics for approved-drug status.

Symbol	ChEMBL assays
KCNQ2	145

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

4 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.

Compound	Max phase	Cohort target (bioactivity)
FLUPIRTINE	4	KCNQ2
EZOGABINE	4	KCNQ2
FLINDOKALNER	3	KCNQ2
AZETUKALNER	3	KCNQ2

Druggability pyramid

Cohort genes binned by druggability tier (high → low):

Tier	Definition	Genes	Symbols
A	Approved (phase 4 drug)	1	KCNQ2
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	0

Undrugged target profiles

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

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.