AGO2 p.Ala498=
c.1494G>A · VCV4821427
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
rare (popmax 0.332%, eas)
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 -20 | GERP -3.8 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 0.065 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.332%
East Asian · 149/44,864 alleles
Filtering AF
0.289%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.272%
Overall
0.0125%
202/1,613,698 alleles · rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| East Asiangrpmax | 0.332% | 301 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0272% | 3,676 |
| South Asian | 0.0264% | 3,795 |
| Ashkenazi Jewishnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0135% | 7,401 |
| African / African-American | 0.004% | 25,018 |
| Admixed American | 0.00333% | 30,010 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000254% | 393,287 |
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
- AGO2
- Protein
- p.Ala498=
- Coding
- c.1494G>A
- MANE Select
- NM_012154
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr8:140549208 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.102 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 92.82 · 71 PDB
- Residue 498
- an α-helix
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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/ago2-p-ala498 (accessed [today's date]).
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