Benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 4 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Common
common (popmax 9.51%, afr) — too common for a highly-penetrant pathogenic allele
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 3.4 | GERP 0.01, phastCons 1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 8.316 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
9.51%
African / African-American · 7,070/74,362 alleles
Filtering AF
9.32%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 9.25%
Overall
0.494%
7,920/1,604,186 alleles · common
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 9.51% | 11 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.62% | 161 |
| Admixed American | 0.587% | 170 |
| Middle Eastern | 0.198% | 504 |
| South Asian | 0.0143% | 6,990 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.00726% | 13,782 |
| East Asian | 0.00446% | 22,420 |
| Finnishnot grpmax-eligible | 0.00156% | 64,016 |
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
- C5
- Protein
- p.Asp494=
- Coding
- c.1482C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_001735
- dbSNP
- rs2230215
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr9:121020000 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.779 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 81.67 · 49 PDB
- Residue 494
- an α-helix; a UniProt-annotated variant site (in c5d)
Similar variants
- C5 p.Asp494Gly Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same residue
- C5 c.2257+1G>A Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- C5 c.4679-2A>G Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- C5 p.Arg1476Ter Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- C5 p.Gln19Ter Pathogenic ★★ same type
- C5 p.Glu1437Ter Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- C5 p.Trp469Ter Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- C5 c.2059+3A>G 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/c5-p-asp494 (accessed [today's date]).
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