Is CD33 p.Phe61Leu (c.181T>C) pathogenic?

CD33 p.Phe61Leu (c.181T>C) is classified Uncertain significance in CD33 (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2022-10-26). AlphaMissense: likely pathogenic (0.9719); Very rare (popmax 0.00133%, afr).

How common is CD33 p.Phe61Leu (c.181T>C) in the general population?

CD33 p.Phe61Leu (c.181T>C) is very rare (popmax 0.00133%, afr) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about CD33 p.Phe61Leu (c.181T>C)?

AlphaMissense predicts likely pathogenic (score 0.9719) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

CD33 p.Phe61Leu

c.181T>C · rs529210091 · VCV2320566

Uncertain significance Single submitter

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Single submitter ★☆☆☆

ClinVar · 1 submitter

AlphaMissense

likely pathogenic

0.9719 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

very rare (popmax 0.00133%, afr)

Missense predictors

1/2 damaging

AlphaMissense, SaProt · REVEL no call

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.9719	likely pathogenic · top 1% in CD33
REVEL	0.43	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -9.53	tolerated
⇒ AlphaMissense calls this damaging; SaProt does not; REVEL makes no call.
Splicing
SpliceAI	—	not assessed · no allele here is in the release
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 0.82	GERP 1.8, phastCons 0.73
Regional constraint	o/e 0.91	unconstrained · MANE · 15 kb · p 0.052 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	22.3	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 0.00133% African / African-American · 1/75,056 alleles

Filtering AF 6.8e-05% ClinGen BA1/BS1 input FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.9e-05%

Overall 0.000248% 4/1,614,206 alleles · very rare

Ancestry group	Frequency	1 in
African / African-Americangrpmax	0.00133%	75,056
European (non-Finnish)	0.000254%	393,342

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: CD33
Protein: p.Phe61Leu
Coding: c.181T>C
MANE Select: NM_001772
dbSNP: rs529210091
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr19:51225361 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 1.072 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 78.30 · 11 PDB
Residue 61: a β-strand; the ig-like v-type domain

Full CD33 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/cd33-p-phe61leu (accessed [today's date]).

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