Is ACAN p.Cys2485= (c.7455C>T) pathogenic?

ACAN p.Cys2485= (c.7455C>T) is classified Benign/Likely benign in ACAN (ClinVar, Multiple submitters, 4 submitters; last evaluated 2026-05-15). Rare (popmax 0.405%, nfe).

How common is ACAN p.Cys2485= (c.7455C>T) in the general population?

ACAN p.Cys2485= (c.7455C>T) is rare (popmax 0.405%, nfe) (gnomAD).

ACAN p.Cys2485=

c.7455C>T · rs117879889 · VCV774717

Benign/Likely benign Multiple submitters

Classification

Benign/Likely benign

ClinVar

Review

Multiple submitters ★★☆☆

ClinVar · 4 submitters

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

rare (popmax 0.405%, nfe)

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 -2.4	GERP -3.8
Overall
CADD	3.217	PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree

Population frequency

gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes

Grpmax group 0.405% European (non-Finnish) · 4,775/1,179,848 alleles

Filtering AF 0.395% ClinGen BA1/BS1 input FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.391%

Overall 0.441% 7,115/1,613,648 alleles · rare

Ancestry group	Frequency	1 in
Finnishnot grpmax-eligible	2.87%	35
Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible	0.424%	236
European (non-Finnish)grpmax	0.405%	247
South Asian	0.168%	595
Middle Eastern	0.0993%	1,007
African / African-American	0.0586%	1,705
Admixed American	0.0583%	1,715
Ashkenazi Jewishnot grpmax-eligible	0.00676%	14,802
East Asian	0.00223%	44,868

Finnish shows a higher raw frequency than the grpmax group above it. gnomAD excludes bottlenecked groups — Finnish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Amish and “Remaining individuals” — from grpmax, because founder effects make their frequencies unrepresentative for filtering. The table is sorted by frequency, so an excluded group can sit above the grpmax row.

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: ACAN
Protein: p.Cys2485=
Coding: c.7455C>T
MANE Select: NM_001369268
dbSNP: rs117879889
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr15:88873849 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 0.377 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 53.32 · 4 PDB
Residue 2485: a disulfide bond; the sushi domain; the 'g3' region

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

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ACAN p.Arg236Ter Pathogenic ★★ same type
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ACAN p.Arg394Ter Pathogenic ★★ same type
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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/acan-p-cys2485 (accessed [today's date]).

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