Is AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A) pathogenic?

AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A) is classified Uncertain significance in AFF4 (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2024-05-01). AlphaMissense: ambiguous (0.3448); Very rare (popmax 0.00167%, amr); Associated with cognitive impairment - coarse facies - heart defects - obesity - pulmonary involvement - short stature - skeletal dysplasia syndrome.

How common is AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A) in the general population?

AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A) is very rare (popmax 0.00167%, amr) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A)?

AlphaMissense predicts ambiguous (score 0.3448) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr

Q: What condition is associated with AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A)?

AFF4 p.Ser120Tyr (c.359C>A) is associated with cognitive impairment - coarse facies - heart defects - obesity - pulmonary involvement - short stature - skeletal dysplasia syndrome (ClinVar).

c.359C>A · VCV3698619

Uncertain significance Single submitter

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Single submitter ★☆☆☆

ClinVar · 1 submitter

AlphaMissense

ambiguous

0.3448 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

very rare (popmax 0.00167%, amr)

Conditions

cognitive impairment - coarse facies - heart defects - obesity - pulmonary involvement - short stature - skeletal dysplasia syndrome

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.3448	ambiguous
REVEL	0.356	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -9.43	tolerated
Splicing
SpliceAI	—	not assessed · no allele here is in the release
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 12	GERP 4, phastCons 1
Regional constraint	o/e 0.93	unconstrained · MANE · 477 bp · p 0.29 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	27.1	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 0.00167% Admixed American · 1/60,010 alleles

Overall 6.84e-05% 1/1,461,892 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: AFF4
Protein: p.Ser120Tyr
Coding: c.359C>A
MANE Select: NM_014423
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr5:132934706 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 0.114 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 54.62 · 9 PDB
Residue 120: the 'disordered' region; a modified residue (phosphoserine)

Full AFF4 gene report on Sugi Atlas → Gene function, pathways, protein structure, interactions & more

Disease context

cognitive impairment - coarse facies - heart defects - obesity - pulmonary involvement - short stature - skeletal dysplasia syndrome — disease report on Sugi Atlas → Associated genes, phenotypes, clinical trials & treatments

Similar variants

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AFF4 p.Thr254Ser Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ ⚠ same condition
AFF4 c.1133+3A>G Uncertain significance ★★ same condition
AFF4 p.Ala114Thr Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same condition
AFF4 p.Ala114Val Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same condition
AFF4 p.Ala27Thr Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same condition

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/aff4-p-ser120tyr (accessed [today's date]).

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