Short stature-advanced bone age-early-onset osteoarthritis syndrome

Summary

Short stature-advanced bone age-early-onset osteoarthritis syndrome (MONDO:0018566) is a disease with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

• Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000 (Worldwide) [Orphanet-validated]
• Cohort genes: 1
• ClinVar variants: 1
• Phenotypes (HPO): 5

Clinical features

Epidemiology

Prevalence records

2 prevalence record(s), Orphanet:

Type	Class	Value	Geography	Validation
Cases/families		3	Worldwide	Validated
Point prevalence	<1 / 1 000 000		Worldwide	Validated

Signs & symptoms

Clinical features (HPO)

5 HPO clinical features (Orphanet curated; top 5 by frequency):

HPO ID	Term	Frequency
HP:0001156	Brachydactyly	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0007281	Developmental stagnation	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0009778	Short thumb	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0011800	Midface retrusion	Frequent (30-79%)
HP:0002758	Osteoarthritis	Occasional (5-29%)

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	short stature-advanced bone age-early-onset osteoarthritis syndrome
Mondo ID	MONDO:0018566
Orphanet	435804
UMLS	C5681177
MedGen	1811782
GARD	0017717
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Data availability: 1 ClinVar variant · 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of genetic or genomic mechanism › hereditary disease › skeletal dysplasia › short stature-advanced bone age-early-onset osteoarthritis syndrome

Related subtypes (118): osteochondrodysplasia, diaphyseal medullary stenosis-bone malignancy syndrome, fibular aplasia-ectrodactyly syndrome, cerebrocostomandibular syndrome, cleidorhizomelic syndrome, dyschondrosteosis-nephritis syndrome, dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica, carpotarsal osteochondromatosis, Camurati-Engelmann disease, genochondromatosis, autosomal dominant osteosclerosis, Worth type, coxopodopatellar syndrome, Lenz-Majewski hyperostotic dwarfism, delayed membranous cranial ossification, metaphyseal dysplasia-maxillary hypoplasia-brachydacty syndrome, oculodentodigital dysplasia, Ollier disease, osteoglophonic dysplasia, parietal foramina with cleidocranial dysplasia, chondromalacia patellae, Currarino triad, Proteus syndrome, brachydactyly-elbow wrist dysplasia syndrome, tricho-dento-osseous syndrome, bird headed-dwarfism, Montreal type, Yunis-Varon syndrome, split hand-foot malformation 1 with sensorineural hearing loss, ghosal hematodiaphyseal dysplasia, hyperostosis corticalis generalisata, Larsen-like syndrome, B3GAT3 type, mesomelic dwarfism-cleft palate-camptodactyly syndrome, metaphyseal acroscyphodysplasia, metaphyseal dysostosis-intellectual disability-conductive deafness syndrome, familial osteodysplasia, Anderson type, pseudodiastrophic dysplasia, rhizomelic syndrome, Urbach type, Richieri Costa-Pereira syndrome, craniometadiaphyseal dysplasia, wormian bone type, Weaver syndrome, SHOX-related short stature, craniofrontonasal syndrome, Eiken syndrome, 2q37 microdeletion syndrome, skeletal dysplasia-epilepsy-short stature syndrome, rhizomelic dysplasia, Patterson-Lowry type, pelvic dysplasia-arthrogryposis of lower limbs syndrome, Marshall-Smith syndrome, baby rattle pelvis dysplasia, metaphyseal dysplasia, Braun-Tinschert type, genitopatellar syndrome, osteofibrous dysplasia, Larsen-like osseous dysplasia-short stature syndrome, pancreatic insufficiency-anemia-hyperostosis syndrome, microcephalic primordial dwarfism due to ZNF335 deficiency, Hartsfield-Bixler-Demyer syndrome, colobomatous microphthalmia-rhizomelic dysplasia syndrome, Tatton-Brown-Rahman overgrowth syndrome, tall stature-scoliosis-macrodactyly of the great toes syndrome, Catel-Manzke syndrome, cognitive impairment - coarse facies - heart defects - obesity - pulmonary involvement - short stature - skeletal dysplasia syndrome, skeletal overgrowth-craniofacial dysmorphism-hyperelastic skin-white matter lesions syndrome, complex lethal osteochondrodysplasia, amniotic band syndrome, metaphyseal anadysplasia, syndromic craniosynostosis, thin ribs-tubular bones-dysmorphism syndrome, dysplasia of head of femur, Meyer type, epimetaphyseal skeletal dysplasia, melorheostosis with osteopoikilosis, Cole-Carpenter syndrome, spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, omodysplasia, Bruck syndrome, osteopetrosis, congenital absence of upper arm and forearm with hand present, congenital absence of thigh and lower leg with foot present, congenital absence of both forearm and hand, congenital absence of both lower leg and foot, acheiria, apodia, chondroectodermal dysplasia with night blindness, TRPV4-related bone disorder, adactyly of foot, McCune-Albright syndrome, parietal foramina, Sotos syndrome, dysspondyloenchondromatosis, autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2, FGFR3-related chondrodysplasia, filamin-related bone disorder, short rib dysplasia, spondylodysplastic dysplasia, acromelic dysplasia, bent bone dysplasia, chondrodysplasia punctata, primary osteolysis, non-syndromic limb reduction defect, Robinow syndrome, synpolydactyly, acrocoxomesomelic dysplasia, bone dysplasia Moore type, bone dysplasia corpus callosum agenesis, type 2 collagenopathy, LRP5-related primary osteoporosis, SLC26A2-related skeletal dysplasia, COMP-related skeletal dysplasia, primordial dwarfism and slender bone disorder, polydactyly-syndactyly-triphalangism, lysosomal storage disease with skeletal involvement, abnormal mineralization disorder, calvarial doughnut lesions with bone fragility and spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, de la Chapelle dysplasia, mesomelic dysplasia-digital anomalies-intellectual disability syndrome, proximal femoral focal deficiency, rhizomelic dysplasia, Ain-Naz type, craniotubular dysplasia, Ikegawa type, TRIP11-related skeletal dysplasia, FAM111A-related skeletal dysplasia

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

ClinVar	Variant (HGVS)	Gene	Classification	Review
2664313	NM_001369268.1(ACAN):c.6757del (p.Thr2253fs)	ACAN	Pathogenic	criteria provided, single submitter

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 15 · 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
ACAN	Definitive	Autosomal dominant	short stature and advanced bone age, with or without early-onset osteoarthritis and/or osteochondritis dissecans	15

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

Gene	Orphanet ID	Rare disease
ACAN	Orphanet:171866	Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, aggrecan type
ACAN	Orphanet:251262	Familial osteochondritis dissecans
ACAN	Orphanet:435804	Short stature-advanced bone age-early-onset osteoarthritis syndrome
ACAN	Orphanet:93283	Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, Kimberley type

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
ACAN	HGNC:319	ENSG00000157766	P16112	Aggrecan core protein	gencc,clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

Symbol	Protein name	Function (lead sentence)
ACAN	Aggrecan core protein	This proteoglycan is a major component of extracellular matrix of cartilagenous tissues.

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
Complement	1	268.0×	0.004

Per-gene assignment

Symbol	Family	Druggable?	EC	InterPro (top 3)
ACAN	Complement	yes		Sushi_SCR_CCP_dom, Link_dom, EGF

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
cartilage tissue	1
descending thoracic aorta	1
tibia	1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

Symbol	Bgee breadth	FANTOM5 breadth	SCXA	Top tissues
ACAN	181	broad	marker	tibia, cartilage tissue, descending thoracic aorta

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

Symbol	Interactor count
ACAN	2,200

Structural data

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

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

Symbol	UniProt	PDB entries
ACAN	P16112	4

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 7. 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 CHST6 causes MCDC1	1	1427.5×	0.002	ACAN
Defective ST3GAL3 causes MCT12 and EIEE15	1	1427.5×	0.002	ACAN
Defective B4GALT1 causes B4GALT1-CDG (CDG-2d)	1	1427.5×	0.002	ACAN
Keratan sulfate degradation	1	713.8×	0.002	ACAN
Keratan sulfate biosynthesis	1	380.7×	0.004	ACAN
ECM proteoglycans	1	150.3×	0.008	ACAN
Degradation of the extracellular matrix	1	117.7×	0.008	ACAN

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
skeletal system development	1	125.8×	0.017	ACAN
central nervous system development	1	115.4×	0.017	ACAN
cell adhesion	1	37.5×	0.029	ACAN
proteolysis	1	34.2×	0.029	ACAN

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
ACAN	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	1	ACAN
D	Druggable family + AlphaFold only, no drug	0
E	Difficult family or no structure, no drug	0

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)
ACAN	0	—

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.