Benign
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Classification
Benign
ClinVar
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ClinVar · 2 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
low-frequency (popmax 1.58%, 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 -1.3 | GERP -2.4 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 1.718 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
1.58%
African / African-American · 1,184/75,054 alleles
Filtering AF
1.5%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.47%
Overall
0.0863%
1,392/1,613,584 alleles · low-frequency
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 1.58% | 63 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.136% | 735 |
| Admixed American | 0.0983% | 1,017 |
| Middle Eastern | 0.033% | 3,031 |
| South Asian | 0.00659% | 15,180 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.00466% | 21,455 |
| East Asian | 0.00223% | 44,878 |
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
- APOA4
- Protein
- p.Ala260=
- Coding
- c.780C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_000482
- dbSNP
- rs5105
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr11:116821278 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.985 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 81.14 · 2 PDB
- Residue 260
- the '13 x 22 aa approximate tandem repeats' region; an α-helix
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- APOA4 p.Arg166Ser Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
- APOA4 p.Arg275Cys Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
- APOA4 p.Gln50Arg Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
- APOA4 p.Gln50Lys Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
- APOA4 p.Glu283Ala Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
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/apoa4-p-ala260 (accessed [today's date]).
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