CD44 p.Phe245=
c.735T>C · rs35911720 · VCV786918
Benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 3 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
low-frequency (popmax 1.67%, afr)
Computational evidence
| Protein change | ||
| Missense predictors do not apply to this variant type; conservation carries the signal. | ||
| REVEL | 0.086 | moderately benign-leaning |
|---|---|---|
| Splicing | ||
| SpliceAI | — | not assessed · no allele here is in the release |
| Constraint at this position | ||
| Conservation | phyloP 1.1 | GERP -0.78, phastCons 1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 6.087 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
1.67%
African / African-American · 1,252/75,040 alleles
Filtering AF
1.59%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.56%
Overall
0.0828%
1,336/1,613,774 alleles · low-frequency
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 1.67% | 60 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0768% | 1,302 |
| Admixed American | 0.045% | 2,223 |
| Middle Eastern | 0.033% | 3,030 |
| South Asian | 0.0011% | 91,056 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000509% | 196,626 |
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
- CD44
- Protein
- p.Phe245=
- Coding
- c.735T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_000610
- dbSNP
- rs35911720
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr11:35196813 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.654 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 53.31 · 7 PDB
- Residue 245
- the 'stem' region
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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/cd44-p-phe245 (accessed [today's date]).
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