Is BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A) pathogenic?

BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A) is classified Uncertain significance in BARD1 (ClinVar, Multiple submitters, 5 submitters; last evaluated 2025-11-03). AlphaMissense: ambiguous (0.3411); Very rare (popmax 0.00017%, nfe); Associated with hereditary neoplastic syndrome.

What condition is associated with BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A)?

BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A) is associated with hereditary neoplastic syndrome, hereditary breast carcinoma (ClinVar).

How common is BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A) in the general population?

BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A) is very rare (popmax 0.00017%, nfe) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about BARD1 p.Arg52His (c.155G>A)?

AlphaMissense predicts ambiguous (score 0.3411) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

BARD1 p.Arg52His

c.155G>A · rs574257684 · VCV530045

Uncertain significance Multiple submitters

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Multiple submitters ★★☆☆

ClinVar · 5 submitters

AlphaMissense

ambiguous

0.3411 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

very rare (popmax 0.00017%, nfe)

Conditions

hereditary neoplastic syndrome

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.3411	ambiguous
REVEL	0.411	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -6.25	tolerated
Splicing
SpliceAI	Δ0.28	donor loss, 1 bp away · masked 0 · deltas
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 7.3	GERP 0.85, phastCons 1
Regional constraint	o/e 1.06	unconstrained · MANE · 81 kb · p 0.077 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	27.0	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 0.00017% European (non-Finnish) · 2/1,179,844 alleles

Filtering AF 2.8e-05% ClinGen BA1/BS1 input FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.1e-05%

Overall 0.000137% 2/1,460,134 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: BARD1
Protein: p.Arg52His
Coding: c.155G>A
MANE Select: NM_000465
dbSNP: rs574257684
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr2:214809415 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 1.087 · pLI <0.01 · ClinGen HI 3/3 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 64.82 · 11 PDB
Residue 52: a turn; the 'interaction with brca1' region

Full BARD1 gene report on Sugi Atlas → Gene function, pathways, protein structure, interactions & more

Disease context

hereditary neoplastic syndrome — disease report on Sugi Atlas → Associated genes, phenotypes, clinical trials & treatments

Also linked: hereditary breast carcinoma

Similar variants

BARD1 p.Arg52Pro Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same residue
BARD1 p.Arg52Ser Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same residue
BARD1 p.Arg52Gly Uncertain significance ★ ⚠ same residue
BARD1 p.Arg52= Likely benign ★ same residue
BARD1 p.Arg52Phe Uncertain significance ★ same residue
BARD1 c.1314+1G>A Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
BARD1 c.1314+1G>T Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
BARD1 c.1396-1G>A Likely pathogenic ★★ 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/bard1-p-arg52his (accessed [today's date]).

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