BRAF p.Arg172=
c.516G>A · rs1164283478 · VCV2901547
Likely benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 2 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00134%, afr)
Conditions
1
RASopathy
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 0.093 | GERP 0.52, phastCons 0.95 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 8.61 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00134%
African / African-American · 1/74,810 alleles
Overall
0.000658%
1/152,048 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
- BRAF
- Protein
- p.Arg172=
- Coding
- c.516G>A
- MANE Select
- NM_004333
- dbSNP
- rs1164283478
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr7:140808984 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.237 · pLI 1.00 · ClinGen HI 0/3 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 67.87 · 135 PDB
- Residue 172
- the rbd domain
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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/braf-p-arg172 (accessed [today's date]).
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