ABCA4 p.Thr243=
c.729T>C · rs2101135548 · VCV1248281
Benign/Likely benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Benign/Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 2 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00133%, afr)
Computational evidence
| Protein change | ||
| Missense predictors do not apply to this variant type; conservation carries the signal. | ||
| Splicing | ||
| SpliceAI | — | not assessed · no allele here is in the release |
|---|---|---|
| Constraint at this position | ||
| Conservation | phyloP -1.6 | GERP -3.8 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 0.431 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00133%
African / African-American · 1/75,042 alleles
Filtering AF
2.8e-05%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.1e-05%
Overall
0.000205%
3/1,461,864 alleles · very rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 0.00133% | 75,042 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000169% | 590,012 |
Rarity supports pathogenicity (ACMG PM2); frequency above a disease-specific BA1/BS1 threshold argues against it. A variant frequent in one ancestry group can be near-absent in others, so a single global figure can mislead.
Variant & gene context
- Gene
- ABCA4
- Protein
- p.Thr243=
- Coding
- c.729T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_000350
- dbSNP
- rs2101135548
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr1:94098833 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.786 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 75.96 · 8 PDB
- Residue 243
- a UniProt-annotated variant site (in cord3; uncertain significance); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in stgd1; uncertain significance); a UniProt-annotated variant site (found in a patient with chorioretinal atrophy; uncertain significance); a β-strand; a disulfide bond
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- ABCA4 c.4254-1G>C Pathogenic ★★★ same type
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Cite Sugi Variant
Gür T. Sugi Variant: A Deterministic Per-Variant Germline Reference from a Knowledge Graph for Humans and AI Agents. 2026. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21509445. This variant: https://sugi.bio/variant/abca4-p-thr243 (accessed [today's date]).
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