Is ABCA5 p.Phe312Ile (c.934T>A) pathogenic?

ABCA5 p.Phe312Ile (c.934T>A) is classified Uncertain significance in ABCA5 (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2025-11-26). AlphaMissense: ambiguous (0.4438); Very rare (popmax 7.52e-05%).

How common is ABCA5 p.Phe312Ile (c.934T>A) in the general population?

ABCA5 p.Phe312Ile (c.934T>A) is very rare (popmax 7.52e-05%) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about ABCA5 p.Phe312Ile (c.934T>A)?

AlphaMissense predicts ambiguous (score 0.4438) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

ABCA5 p.Phe312Ile

c.934T>A · VCV4635945

Uncertain significance Single submitter

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Single submitter ★☆☆☆

ClinVar · 1 submitter

AlphaMissense

ambiguous

0.4438 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

very rare (popmax 7.52e-05%)

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.4438	ambiguous
REVEL	0.521	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -8.64	tolerated
Splicing
SpliceAI	—	not assessed · no allele here is in the release
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 9.3	GERP 0.17, phastCons 1
Regional constraint	o/e 0.97	unconstrained · MANE · 67 kb · p 0.22 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	23.2	PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree

AlphaMissense carries the ACMG weight for missense; REVEL and SaProt are independent agreement signals.

Population frequency

gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes

Grpmax group 7.52e-05%

Overall 7.52e-05% 1/1,330,174 alleles · very rare

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: ABCA5
Protein: p.Phe312Ile
Coding: c.934T>A
MANE Select: NM_172232
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr17:69302903 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 0.97 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 77.12

Full ABCA5 gene report on Sugi Atlas → Gene function, pathways, protein structure, interactions & more

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Built on 18 open, versioned datasets — ClinVar, gnomAD, AlphaMissense, REVEL, ClinGen & more — plus Sugi Variant's own cross-source analysis. Source data 2026-01–2026-10, ClinVar 2026-10. Full sources & versions →

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/abca5-p-phe312ile (accessed [today's date]).

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