CEP290 p.Ile2000Val
c.5998A>G · rs183071230 · VCV281249
ClinGen expert panel — Leber Congenital Amaurosis/early onset Retinal Dystrophy VCEP
Uncertain Significance for CEP290-related ciliopathy. Applied ACMG criteria (verbatim):
PM2_Supporting BP4
Curation rationale (ClinGen, verbatim)
NM_025114.4(CEP290):c.5998A>G (p.Ile2000Val) is a missense variant that replaces isoleucine with valine at amino acid 2000. This variant is present in gnomAD v4.1.1 at a Grpmax allele frequency of 0.001149, with 12 alleles / 6,020 total alleles in the Middle Eastern population, which is lower than the ClinGen LCA/eoRD VCEP BS1 threshold of >0.0016. This variant is present in gnomAD v4.1.1 at a total allele frequency of 0.0001209, with 194 alleles / 1,604,948 total alleles, which is lower than the ClinGen LCA/eoRD VCEP PM2_Supporting threshold of <0.0006 (PM2_Supporting). This variant has been reported in at least 1 proband with renal anomalies and renal disease who harbored the variant in the compound heterozygous state, however, the proband was not counted for PM3 because sufficient phenotype details were not reported and because the NM_025114.4(CEP290):c.963T>A (p.Asp321Glu) variant suspected in trans has been classified as a VUS (PMID: 40718208). The variant has also been reported in at least 1 proband with a severe sperm motility disorder who harbored the variant in the compound heterozygous state, however, the proband was not counted for PM3 because sufficient details were not reported and because the NM_025114.4(CEP290):c.1092T>G (p.Ile364Met) variant suspected in trans has been classified as likely benign. The proband also harbored homozygous missense variants in several other candidate genes, but was not counted for BP5 because sufficient phenotype details were not reported and because this code is considered not applicable to CEP290 due to the high genetic heterogeneity and limited phenotypic specificities of retinal dystrophies (PMID: 34089056). The computational predictor CADD gives a PHRED score of 12.9, which is below the ClinGen LCA/eoRD VCEP threshold of <17.3 and predicts a non-damaging effect on CEP290 protein function. In addition, the splicing impact predictor SpliceAI gives a delta score of 0.00 for all splicing events, which is below the ClinGen LCA/eoRD VCEP recommended threshold of ≤0.1 and does not predict an impact on splicing (BP4). In summary, this variant meets the criteria to be classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance for CEP290-related ciliopathy based on the ACMG/AMP criteria applied, as specified by the ClinGen LCA/eoRD VCEP: PM2_Supporting and BP4. (LCA/eoRD VCEP Specifications for CEP290 Version 1.0.0)
ClinGen Evidence Repository → · reported verbatim, not re-tallied by Sugi Variant.
Computational evidence
| Protein change | ||
| AlphaMissense | 0.0961 | likely benign |
|---|---|---|
| REVEL | 0.09 | moderately benign-leaning |
| SaProt | LLR -7.39 | tolerated |
| ⇒ AlphaMissense, REVEL and SaProt all call this tolerated. | ||
| Splicing | ||
| SpliceAI | — | not assessed · no allele here is in the release |
| Constraint at this position | ||
| Conservation | phyloP -0.084 | GERP -3, phastCons 0.032 |
| Regional constraint | o/e 1.00 | unconstrained · MANE · 92 kb · p 0.89 · regional, not allelic |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 8.454 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
ClinVar classifies this uncertain; the computational predictors unanimously lean tolerated — a triage signal, not a reclassification
AlphaMissense carries the ACMG weight for missense; REVEL and SaProt are independent agreement signals.
Population frequency
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| Middle Easterngrpmax | 0.199% | 502 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0177% | 5,651 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.0139% | 7,205 |
| Admixed American | 0.00508% | 19,700 |
| South Asian | 0.00447% | 22,388 |
| Finnishnot grpmax-eligible | 0.00157% | 63,824 |
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
- CEP290
- Protein
- p.Ile2000Val
- Coding
- c.5998A>G
- MANE Select
- NM_025114
- dbSNP
- rs183071230
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr12:88071307 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 1.094 · pLI <0.01 · ClinGen HI gene assoc. with recessive phenotype (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 60.90
- Residue 2000
- a UniProt-annotated variant site (in lca10; also found in a patient with night blindness and hearing loss); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in lca10); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in lca10, slsn6 and mks4); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in lca10 and slsn6); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in mks4 and jbts5); the 'self-association (with itself or n-terminus)' region
Disease context
CEP290-related ciliopathy — disease report on Sugi Atlas → Associated genes, phenotypes, clinical trials & treatmentsAlso linked: Joubert syndrome 5Senior-Loken syndrome 6Meckel syndrome, type 4Leber congenital amaurosis 10Bardet-Biedl syndrome 14Joubert syndromeMeckel syndromeLeber congenital amaurosisnephronophthisisinherited retinal dystrophyretinitis pigmentosa
Similar variants
- CEP290 p.Ile2000Thr Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same residue
- CEP290 c.1189+1G>A Pathogenic ★★★ same condition
- CEP290 c.1189+2T>C Pathogenic ★★★ same condition
- CEP290 c.297+1G>T Pathogenic ★★★ same condition
- CEP290 c.2991+1655A>G Pathogenic ★★★ same condition
- CEP290 c.4438-2A>G Pathogenic ★★★ same condition
- CEP290 c.6271-8T>G Pathogenic ★★★ same condition
- CEP290 p.Arg1272Ter 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/cep290-p-ile2000val (accessed [today's date]).
Preprint & method: sugi.bio/variant/method Machine-readable: this page as Markdown