SFTPC-related interstitial lung disease

Summary

SFTPC-related interstitial lung disease (MONDO:0018603) 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		21	Worldwide	Validated
Point prevalence	<1 / 1 000 000		Worldwide	Validated

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	SFTPC-related interstitial lung disease
Mondo ID	MONDO:0018603
Orphanet	440392
GARD	0017744
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Also known as: interstitial lung disease due to SP-C deficiency · SFTPC-related ILD

Data availability: 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › respiratory system disorder › lower respiratory tract disorder › lung disorder › pulmonary alveolar proteinosis › hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis › SFTPC-related interstitial lung disease

Related subtypes (7): surfactant metabolism dysfunction, pulmonary, 1, surfactant metabolism dysfunction, pulmonary, 4, interstitial lung disease due to ABCA3 deficiency, surfactant metabolism dysfunction, pulmonary, 5, severe early-onset pulmonary alveolar proteinosis due to MARS deficiency, chronic respiratory distress with surfactant metabolism deficiency, surfactant metabolism dysfunction, pulmonary, 2

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: 6 · 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
SFTPC	Supportive	Autosomal dominant	SFTPC-related interstitial lung disease	6

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
SFTPC	Orphanet:2032	Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
SFTPC	Orphanet:217566	Chronic respiratory distress with surfactant metabolism deficiency
SFTPC	Orphanet:440392	Interstitial lung disease due to SP-C deficiency
SFTPC	Orphanet:685082	Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome

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
SFTPC	HGNC:10802	ENSG00000168484	P11686	Surfactant protein C	gencc

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
SFTPC	Surfactant protein C	Pulmonary surfactant associated proteins promote alveolar stability by lowering the surface tension at the air-liquid interface in the peripheral air spaces.

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)
SFTPC	Other/Unknown	no		SP-C, BRICHOS_dom, Surfactant_protein_propep

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
adult organism	1
lower lobe of lung	1
right lung	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
SFTPC	208	tissue_specific	marker	lower lobe of lung, right lung, adult organism

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
SFTPC	1,613

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

Symbol	UniProt	PDB entries
SFTPC	P11686	3

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 4. 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
Defective pro-SFTPC causes SMDP2 and RDS	1	11420.0×	4e-04	SFTPC
Defective CSF2RB causes SMDP5	1	1631.4×	8e-04	SFTPC
Defective CSF2RA causes SMDP4	1	1631.4×	8e-04	SFTPC
Surfactant metabolism	1	368.4×	0.003	SFTPC

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
respiratory gaseous exchange by respiratory system	1	624.1×	0.002	SFTPC

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
SFTPC	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	SFTPC

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)
SFTPC	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.