Is AVIL p.Val162Ala (c.485T>C) pathogenic?

AVIL p.Val162Ala (c.485T>C) is classified Uncertain significance in AVIL (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2025-10-07). AlphaMissense: ambiguous (0.3594); Ultra-rare (popmax 0.0267%, afr).

How common is AVIL p.Val162Ala (c.485T>C) in the general population?

AVIL p.Val162Ala (c.485T>C) is ultra-rare (popmax 0.0267%, afr) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about AVIL p.Val162Ala (c.485T>C)?

AlphaMissense predicts ambiguous (score 0.3594) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

AVIL p.Val162Ala

c.485T>C · VCV4644747

Uncertain significance Single submitter

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Single submitter ★☆☆☆

ClinVar · 1 submitter

AlphaMissense

ambiguous

0.3594 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

ultra-rare (popmax 0.0267%, afr)

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.3594	ambiguous
REVEL	0.329	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -12.22	damaging
Splicing
SpliceAI	—	not assessed · no allele here is in the release
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 9.3	GERP 2.2, phastCons 1
Regional constraint	o/e 0.88	unconstrained · MANE · 18 kb · p 9.4e-05 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	25.5	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 0.0267% African / African-American · 20/74,916 alleles

Filtering AF 0.0177% ClinGen BA1/BS1 input FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.0147%

Overall 0.00143% 23/1,614,032 alleles · ultra-rare

Ancestry group	Frequency	1 in
African / African-Americangrpmax	0.0267%	3,746
Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible	0.0032%	31,245
European (non-Finnish)	8.47e-05%	1,180,018

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: AVIL
Protein: p.Val162Ala
Coding: c.485T>C
MANE Select: NM_006576
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr12:57810889 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 0.81 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 79.82 · 1 PDB
Residue 162: the 'core' region

Full AVIL 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/avil-p-val162ala (accessed [today's date]).

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