EPO p.Ala87=
c.261C>T · rs140683829 · VCV733903
Likely benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 4 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
rare (popmax 0.201%, afr)
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 -8.8 | GERP -4.1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 0.237 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.201%
African / African-American · 148/73,804 alleles
Filtering AF
0.174%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.164%
Overall
0.0179%
286/1,597,988 alleles · rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 0.201% | 499 |
| Middle Eastern | 0.191% | 523 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0243% | 4,110 |
| Admixed American | 0.0238% | 4,210 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.00782% | 12,782 |
| Ashkenazi Jewishnot grpmax-eligible | 0.00697% | 14,354 |
| South Asian | 0.00561% | 17,818 |
| East Asian | 0.00446% | 22,397 |
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
- EPO
- Protein
- p.Ala87=
- Coding
- c.261C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_003254 · reported on NM_000799
- dbSNP
- rs140683829
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr7:100722678 (GRCh38)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 90.09 · 13 PDB
- Residue 87
- a disulfide bond; the ntr domain; a β-strand
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- EPO p.Ala151= Benign ★★ same type
- EPO p.Ala57= Likely benign ★★ same type
- EPO p.Asp70Asn Likely benign ★★ same type
- EPO p.Lys79= Benign/Likely benign ★★ same type
- EPO p.Pro114Leu Benign/Likely benign ★★ ⚠ same type
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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/epo-p-ala87 (accessed [today's date]).
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