CLN8 p.Ala68=
c.204C>T · rs771203701 · VCV2080064
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.0011%, sas)
Conditions
1
neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
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 0.52 | GERP -1.2, phastCons 1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 11.98 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.0011%
South Asian · 1/91,076 alleles
Filtering AF
6.8e-05%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.9e-05%
Overall
0.000248%
4/1,613,416 alleles · very rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| South Asiangrpmax | 0.0011% | 91,076 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000254% | 393,174 |
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
- CLN8
- Protein
- p.Ala68=
- Coding
- c.204C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_018941
- dbSNP
- rs771203701
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr8:1771258 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 1.183 · pLI <0.01 · ClinGen HI gene assoc. with recessive phenotype (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 90.47 · 3 PDB
- Residue 68
- the tlc 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/cln8-p-ala68 (accessed [today's date]).
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