Neuropathy with hearing impairment

Summary

Neuropathy with hearing impairment (MONDO:0015351) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000 (Worldwide) [Orphanet-validated]
• Cohort genes: 1

Clinical features

Epidemiology

Prevalence records

2 prevalence record(s), Orphanet:

Type	Class	Value	Geography	Validation
Cases/families		1	Worldwide	Validated
Point prevalence	<1 / 1 000 000		Worldwide	Validated

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	neuropathy with hearing impairment
Mondo ID	MONDO:0015351
Orphanet	139512
ICD-11	129297527
SNOMED CT	723497003
UMLS	C4509933
MedGen	1375726
GARD	0019919
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › nervous system disorder › peripheral nervous system disorder › peripheral neuropathy › hereditary peripheral neuropathy › neuropathy with hearing impairment

Related subtypes (64): giant axonal neuropathy, Finnish type amyloidosis, familial amyloid neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, congenital trigeminal anesthesia, familial recurrent peripheral facial palsy, meralgia paraesthetica, familial, amyotrophic neuralgia, hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies, abetalipoproteinemia, VPS13A-related neurodegenerative disease, mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a, oxoglutaricaciduria, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, homocystinuria due to methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency, Krabbe disease, beta-mannosidosis, biotinidase deficiency, Leigh syndrome, hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy with spastic paraplegia, ornithine aminotransferase deficiency, adult polyglucosan body disease, Sandhoff disease, Tay-Sachs disease, methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria type cblC, familial isolated deficiency of vitamin E, Kearns-Sayre syndrome, NARP syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 5, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, Okinawa type, fumaric aciduria, spinocerebellar ataxia, autosomal recessive, with axonal neuropathy 1, sensory ataxic neuropathy, dysarthria, and ophthalmoparesis, Niemann-Pick disease type B, long chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, primary CD59 deficiency, PHARC syndrome, progressive demyelinating neuropathy with bilateral striatal necrosis, cataract-growth hormone deficiency-sensory neuropathy-sensorineural hearing loss-skeletal dysplasia syndrome, ataxia - oculomotor apraxia type 4, adrenomyeloneuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, infantile axonal neuropathy, mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy, attenuated Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, coenzyme Q10 deficiency, familial episodic pain syndrome, non-progressive predominantly posterior cavitating leukoencephalopathy with peripheral neuropathy, metachromatic leukodystrophy, distal hereditary motor neuropathy, spinocerebellar ataxia, autosomal recessive, with axonal neuropathy 2, proximal spinal muscular atrophy, pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, peroxisome biogenesis disorder, neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 2A, neuropathy, congenital hypomelinating, optic atrophy-ataxia-peripheral neuropathy-global developmental delay syndrome, EMILIN-1-related connective tissue disease, PRPS1 deficiency disorder, neuropathy, hereditary sensory and autonomic, type IId, peripheral motor neuropathy, childhood-onset, biotin-responsive

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: 17 · Orphanet: 4 · 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
GJB3	Moderate	Autosomal dominant	autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss 1A	17

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
GJB3	Orphanet:139512	Neuropathy with hearing impairment
GJB3	Orphanet:317	Erythrokeratodermia variabilis
GJB3	Orphanet:90635	Rare autosomal dominant non-syndromic sensorineural deafness type DFNA
GJB3	Orphanet:90636	Rare autosomal recessive non-syndromic sensorineural deafness type DFNB

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
GJB3	HGNC:4285	ENSG00000188910	O75712	Gap junction beta-3 protein	gencc

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
GJB3	Gap junction beta-3 protein	One gap junction consists of a cluster of closely packed pairs of transmembrane channels, the connexons, through which materials of low MW diffuse from one cell to a neighboring cell.

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)
GJB3	Other/Unknown	no		Connexin, Connexin31, Connexin_N

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
skin of abdomen	1
skin of leg	1
upper arm skin	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
GJB3	183	broad	marker	skin of abdomen, skin of leg, upper arm skin

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
GJB3	782

Structural data

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

AlphaFold-only cohort genes (top 30 by pLDDT)

Symbol	UniProt	pLDDT
GJB3	O75712	79.29

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.

Pathway	Cohort genes	Fold	FDR	Sample cohort genes
Gap junction assembly	1	292.8×	0.004	GJB3
Differentiation of Keratinocytes in Interfollicular Epidermis in Mammalian Skin	1	278.5×	0.004	GJB3

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
placenta development	1	443.5×	0.005	GJB3
cell-cell signaling	1	69.6×	0.014	GJB3

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
GJB3	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	GJB3

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)
GJB3	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.