FTO p.Glu217=
c.651G>A · rs553419698 · VCV1959350
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00161%, nfe)
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 0.67 | phastCons 1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 6.598 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00161%
European (non-Finnish) · 19/1,180,016 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00103%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.00083%
Overall
0.00118%
19/1,614,146 alleles · very rare
exomes 17/1,461,872 · genomes 2/152,274 · joint denominator
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
- FTO
- Protein
- p.Glu217=
- Coding
- c.651G>A
- MANE Select
- NM_001080432
- dbSNP
- rs553419698
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr16:53826391 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.924 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 91.33 · 28 PDB
- Residue 217
- the 'fe2og dioxygenase domain' region; the 'loop l1; predicted to block binding of double-stranded dna or rna' region
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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/fto-p-glu217 (accessed [today's date]).
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