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. 2025 May 15;16(5):104787. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i5.104787

Table 1.

Various categories of monogenic diabetes with genes involved in the pathogenesis and the clinical features, with special emphasis on monogenic diabetes other than maturity-onset diabetes of the young and neonatal diabetes mellitus

Types
Subtypes/varieties
Gene/protein
Clinical features
Inheritance
MODY MODY 1 to 14 See Table 2 See Table 2
Neonatal diabetes Permanent NDM See Table 2 See Table 2
Transient NDM See Table 2 See Table 2
Other monogenic diabetes with defective insulin synthesis and secretion Mitochondrial DM m.3243A > G Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness Maternal
Wolfram syndrome 1 or 2 WFS1 or CISD2 DIDMOAD 1 or 2 diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness AR
Rogers syndrome SLC19A2 Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anaemia, deafness, and diabetes AR
H or PHID syndrome SLC29A3 H syndrome: Hyperpigmentation, hypertrichosis, hepatosplenomegaly, heart anomaly, hearing loss, low height, hypogonadism and hyperglycaemia; PHID syndrome AR
Monogenic autoimmune diabetes syndromes IPEX syndrome FOXP3 IPEX syndrome XR
LRBA Common variable immunodeficiency 8 AR
STAT3 Infancy-onset multi-system autoimmune disease type 1 AD
APECED syndrome AIRE Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1 AR
IL2RA Immunodeficiency 41 with lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity AR
IPEX-like syndrome STAT1 IPEX-like syndrome AD
STAT5B Growth defect, primary immunodeficiency, and endocrine abnormalities AR
Insulin resistance syndromes Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (Seip-Berardinelli syndrome) AGPAT2 CGL1-acromegalic features AR
BSCL2 CGL2-cardiomyopathy, polyneuropathy, mental retardation AR
CAV1 CGL3-short stature, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and vitamin D resistance AR
PTRF CGL4-congenital myopathy, pyloric stenosis, cardiomyopathy, atlantoaxial instability AR
Partial lipodystrophy LMNA FPLD2-fat loss from limbs; fat deposition in face, neck and perineum (Dunnigan variety) AD
PPARG FPLD3-loss of subcutaneous fat from distal extremities AD
PLIN1 FPLD4-loss of subcutaneous fat from extremities AD
AKT2 AKT2 linked FPLD-loss of subcutaneous fat from extremities AD
CIDEC FPLD5-fat loss of lower limbs and abdomen, and multilocular lipid droplets AR
LIPE FPLD6-upper body pseudo-lipomatosis, fat loss from limbs, and muscle atrophy in some cases AR
LMNA Mandibuloacral dysplasia A syndrome-skeletal anomaly, loss of extremity fat, neuropathy, premature ageing AR
ZMPST24 Mandibuloacral dysplasia B syndrome-skeletal anomaly, loss of fat, premature renal failure, progeroid AR
PIK3R1 SHORT syndrome AD
POLD1 MDPL syndrome De novo
WRN Werner syndrome-progeria and cataract AR

MODY: Maturity-onset diabetes of the young; DM: Diabetes mellitus; NDM: Neonatal diabetes mellitus; IPEX syndrome: Immuno-dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked; PHID: Pigmented hypertrichosis and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; APECED: Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy; DIDMOAD: Diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness; AD: Autosomal dominant; AR: Autosomal recessive; XR: X-linked recessive; CGL: Congenital generalized lipodystrophy; FPLD: Familial partial lipodystrophy; SHORT: Short stature, hyperextensibility, hernia, ocular depression, Rieger anomaly and teething delay; MDPL: Mandibular hypoplasia, deafness, progeroid features, and lipodystrophy syndrome.