Neonatal-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

Summary

Neonatal-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (MONDO:0100455) is a disease (an umbrella term covering 20 Mondo subtypes) caused by KCNQ2 (GenCC Strong), with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Causal gene: KCNQ2 (GenCC Strong)
• Umbrella term: 20 Mondo subtypes
• Cohort genes: 1

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	neonatal-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
Mondo ID	MONDO:0100455
GARD	0026229
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

An umbrella term covering 20 Mondo subtypes.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of genetic or genomic mechanism › hereditary disease › hereditary neurological disease › Mendelian neurodevelopmental disorder › genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy › neonatal-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

Related subtypes (104): developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 9, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 8, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 2, multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome 2, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 36, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 1, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 3, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 4, microcephaly, seizures, and developmental delay, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 5, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 7, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 11, neonatal-onset encephalopathy with rigidity and seizures, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 14, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 15, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 17, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 18, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 19, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 23, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 27, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 30, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 50, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 35, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 37, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 38, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 40, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 48, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 49, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 51, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 91, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 92, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 93, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 96, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 90, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 85, with or without midline brain defects, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 67, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 86, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 87, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 88, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 6B, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 97, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 98, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 99, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 100, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 101, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 89, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 102, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 103, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 104, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 105 with hypopituitarism, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 106, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 107, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 68, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 69, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 70, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 71, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 72, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 74, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 75, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 76, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 77, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 78, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 79, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 80, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 81, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 82, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 83, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 84, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 52, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 53, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 54, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 55, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 56, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 57, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 58, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 59, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 60, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 61, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 62, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 63, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 64, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 65, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 73, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 66, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 6A, non-neonatal early infantile epileptic encephalopathy, Dravet syndrome, hemiplegic migraine-developmental and epileptic encephalopathy spectrum, DNM1-encephalopathy and neurodevelopmental disorder, TMEM63B-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with anemia, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 108, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 109, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 110, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 111, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 112, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 113, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 114, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 115, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 116, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 118, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 120, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 121, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 119

Subtypes (20): developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 39, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 12, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 13, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 16, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 21, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 24, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 25, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 26, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 28, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 29, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 31A, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 32, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 33, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 34, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 41, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 42, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 44, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 45, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 46, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 47

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: 12 · Orphanet: 6 · 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
KCNQ2	Definitive	Autosomal dominant	seizures, benign familial neonatal, 1	12

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	gencc

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.