Qualitative or quantitative defects of alpha-sarcoglycan

Summary

Qualitative or quantitative defects of alpha-sarcoglycan (MONDO:0016141) 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	qualitative or quantitative defects of alpha-sarcoglycan
Mondo ID	MONDO:0016141
Orphanet	207060
UMLS	C5680808
MedGen	1842296
GARD	0020390
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 ClinVar variant.

Disease family

An umbrella term covering 1 Mondo subtype.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › nervous system disorder › qualitative or quantitative protein defects in neuromuscular diseases › sarcoglycanopathy › qualitative or quantitative defects of alpha-sarcoglycan

Related subtypes (3): qualitative or quantitative defects of beta-sarcoglycan, qualitative or quantitative defects of gamma-sarcoglycan, qualitative or quantitative defects of delta-sarcoglycan

Subtypes (1): autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D

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 conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

ClinVar	Variant (HGVS)	Gene	Classification	Review
555841	NM_000023.4(SGCA):c.929_930del (p.Tyr310fs)	SGCA	Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity	criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 0 · Orphanet: 1 · OMIM-shared: 0 · Dual-evidence (GWAS+Mendelian): 0

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
SGCA	Orphanet:62	Alpha-sarcoglycan-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R3

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
SGCA	HGNC:10805	ENSG00000108823	Q16586	Alpha-sarcoglycan	clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
SGCA	Alpha-sarcoglycan	Component of the sarcoglycan complex, a subcomplex of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex which forms a link between the F-actin cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix.

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)
SGCA	Other/Unknown	no		Cadg, Sarcoglycan_alpha/epsilon, Cadherin-like_sf

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
apex of heart	1
gastrocnemius	1
hindlimb stylopod muscle	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
SGCA	190	broad	marker	hindlimb stylopod muscle, gastrocnemius, apex of heart

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
SGCA	1,132

Structural data

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

AlphaFold-only cohort genes (top 30 by pLDDT)

Symbol	UniProt	pLDDT
SGCA	Q16586	80.15

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 3. 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
Formation of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC)	1	308.6×	0.010	SGCA
Non-integrin membrane-ECM interactions	1	154.3×	0.010	SGCA
Extracellular matrix organization	1	63.1×	0.016	SGCA

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
muscle contraction	1	208.1×	0.006	SGCA
muscle organ development	1	166.8×	0.006	SGCA

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
SGCA	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	SGCA

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)
SGCA	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.