Is EPHB3 p.Arg657His (c.1970G>A) pathogenic?

EPHB3 p.Arg657His (c.1970G>A) is classified Uncertain significance in EPHB3 (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2025-09-22). AlphaMissense: likely benign (0.1603); Very rare (popmax 0.00348%, nfe).

How common is EPHB3 p.Arg657His (c.1970G>A) in the general population?

EPHB3 p.Arg657His (c.1970G>A) is very rare (popmax 0.00348%, nfe) (gnomAD).

What do computational predictors say about EPHB3 p.Arg657His (c.1970G>A)?

AlphaMissense predicts likely benign (score 0.1603) — an in-silico prediction, not a clinical call.

EPHB3 p.Arg657His

c.1970G>A · VCV4664795

Uncertain significance Single submitter

Classification

Uncertain significance

ClinVar

Review

Single submitter ★☆☆☆

ClinVar · 1 submitter

AlphaMissense

likely benign

0.1603 · ACMG-weighted

gnomAD v4.1

Rare

very rare (popmax 0.00348%, nfe)

Missense predictors

1/2 damaging

AlphaMissense, SaProt · REVEL no call

Computational evidence

Protein change
AlphaMissense	0.1603	likely benign
REVEL	0.612	indeterminate
SaProt	LLR -12.92	damaging
⇒ SaProt calls this damaging; AlphaMissense does not; REVEL makes no call.
Splicing
SpliceAI	—	not assessed · no allele here is in the release
Constraint at this position
Conservation	phyloP 5.3	GERP -1.8, phastCons 1
Regional constraint	o/e 0.74	unconstrained · MANE · 19 kb · p 2.4e-21 · regional, not allelic
Overall
CADD	33.0	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 0.00348% European (non-Finnish) · 41/1,179,462 alleles

Filtering AF 0.00259% ClinGen BA1/BS1 input FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.00233%

Overall 0.0026% 42/1,612,846 alleles · very rare

Ancestry group	Frequency	1 in
European (non-Finnish)grpmax	0.00348%	28,767
Finnishnot grpmax-eligible	0.00156%	63,954

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: EPHB3
Protein: p.Arg657His
Coding: c.1970G>A
MANE Select: NM_004443
Type: single nucleotide variant
Location: chr3:184579732 (GRCh38)
Gene constraint: LOEUF 0.435 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
Structure: AlphaFold pLDDT 82.62 · 4 PDB
Residue 657: a β-strand; the protein kinase domain

Full EPHB3 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/ephb3-p-arg657his (accessed [today's date]).

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