GFAP p.Ser8=
c.24C>T · VCV3614091
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
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ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00867%, amr)
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 -6.2 | GERP -2.9 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 5.296 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00867%
Admixed American · 5/57,700 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00336%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.00214%
Overall
0.000877%
14/1,596,178 alleles · very rare
exomes 12/1,443,980 · genomes 2/152,198 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| Admixed Americangrpmax | 0.00867% | 11,540 |
| South Asian | 0.00561% | 17,822 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000341% | 293,063 |
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
- GFAP
- Protein
- p.Ser8=
- Coding
- c.24C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_002055
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr17:44915463 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.991 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 80.70 · 1 PDB
- Residue 8
- the 'head' region
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- GFAP p.Arg376Trp Pathogenic ★★ same type
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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/gfap-p-ser8 (accessed [today's date]).
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