KRT6A p.Ser237=
c.711A>G · rs199531479 · VCV2039396
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Common
common (popmax 12.1%, eas) — too common for a highly-penetrant pathogenic allele
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 -20 | GERP -3.8 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 0.423 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
12.1%
East Asian · 3,034/25,116 alleles
Filtering AF
11.7%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 11.6%
Overall
0.245%
3,876/1,585,062 alleles · common
exomes 3,528/1,437,016 · genomes 348/148,046 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| East Asiangrpmax | 12.1% | 8 |
| Admixed American | 0.74% | 135 |
| South Asian | 0.225% | 444 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.141% | 711 |
| Finnishnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0938% | 1,067 |
| Ashkenazi Jewishnot grpmax-eligible | 0.065% | 1,538 |
| Middle Eastern | 0.033% | 3,026 |
| African / African-American | 0.0147% | 6,803 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.00416% | 24,064 |
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
- KRT6A
- Protein
- p.Ser237=
- Coding
- c.711A>G
- MANE Select
- NM_005554
- dbSNP
- rs199531479
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr12:52491566 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.755 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 69.16 · 1 PDB
- Residue 237
- the if rod domain; the 'coil 1b' 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/krt6a-p-ser237 (accessed [today's date]).
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