HFE p.Leu289=
c.865C>T · VCV4805645
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.000932%, nfe)
Conditions
1
hereditary hemochromatosis
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 1.7 | GERP 1.5, phastCons 1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 9.278 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.000932%
European (non-Finnish) · 11/1,180,028 alleles
Filtering AF
0.0005%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.000366%
Overall
0.000752%
11/1,461,816 alleles · very rare
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
- HFE
- Protein
- p.Leu289=
- Coding
- c.865C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_000410
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr6:26092933 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 1.037 · pLI <0.01 · ClinGen HI gene assoc. with recessive phenotype (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 88.62 · 2 PDB
- Residue 289
- the ig-like c1-type domain; the 'alpha-3' region; a β-strand
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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/hfe-p-leu289 (accessed [today's date]).
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