Is DSC1 p.Pro606Arg (c.1817C>G) pathogenic?

DSC1 p.Pro606Arg (c.1817C>G) is classified Uncertain significance in DSC1 (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2022-01-05). AlphaMissense: likely pathogenic (0.6805); Very rare (popmax 0.00017%, nfe).

How common is DSC1 p.Pro606Arg (c.1817C>G) in the general population?

DSC1 p.Pro606Arg (c.1817C>G) is very rare (popmax 0.00017%, nfe) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about DSC1 p.Pro606Arg (c.1817C>G)?

AlphaMissense predicts likely pathogenic (score 0.6805) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

DSC1 p.Pro606Arg

c.1817C>G · rs748258302 · VCV2361767

Uncertain significance Single submitter

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Single submitter ★☆☆☆

ClinVar · 1 submitter

AlphaMissense

likely pathogenic

0.6805 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

very rare (popmax 0.00017%, nfe)

Missense predictors

2/2 damaging

AlphaMissense, SaProt · REVEL no call

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.6805	likely pathogenic
REVEL	0.558	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -14.26	damaging
⇒ AlphaMissense and SaProt both call this damaging; REVEL makes no call.
Splicing
SpliceAI	—	not assessed · no allele here is in the release
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 9.8	GERP 2, phastCons 1
Regional constraint	o/e 1.04	unconstrained · MANE · 32 kb · p 0.23 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	26.8	PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree

ClinVar classifies this uncertain; the computational predictors unanimously lean damaging — a triage signal, not a reclassification

AlphaMissense carries the ACMG weight for missense; REVEL and SaProt are independent agreement signals.

Population frequency

gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes

Grpmax group 0.00017% European (non-Finnish) · 2/1,179,314 alleles

Filtering AF 2.8e-05% ClinGen BA1/BS1 input FAF95, joint · FAF99 1.1e-05%

Overall 0.000753% 11/1,460,602 alleles · very rare

Ancestry group	Frequency	1 in
Ashkenazi Jewishnot grpmax-eligible	0.0305%	3,283
European (non-Finnish)grpmax	0.00017%	589,657

Ashkenazi Jewish shows a higher raw frequency than the grpmax group above it. gnomAD excludes bottlenecked groups — Finnish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Amish and “Remaining individuals” — from grpmax, because founder effects make their frequencies unrepresentative for filtering. The table is sorted by frequency, so an excluded group can sit above the grpmax row.

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: DSC1
Protein: p.Pro606Arg
Coding: c.1817C>G
MANE Select: NM_024421
dbSNP: rs748258302
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr18:31134631 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 0.951 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 77.16 · 1 PDB
Residue 606: the cadherin 5 domain

Full DSC1 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/dsc1-p-pro606arg (accessed [today's date]).

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