MERTK p.Ala948=
c.2844A>G · rs763063796 · VCV1080102
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
ultra-rare (popmax 0.0164%, mid)
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 -3.6 | GERP -3.1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 0.158 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.0164%
Middle Eastern · 1/6,084 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00543%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.0038%
Overall
0.00173%
28/1,614,098 alleles · ultra-rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| Middle Easterngrpmax | 0.0164% | 6,084 |
| Admixed American | 0.0117% | 8,572 |
| South Asian | 0.00659% | 15,182 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 0.0016% | 62,486 |
| African / African-American | 0.00133% | 74,924 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.00102% | 98,337 |
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
- MERTK
- Protein
- p.Ala948=
- Coding
- c.2844A>G
- MANE Select
- NM_006343
- dbSNP
- rs763063796
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr2:112028708 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.787 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 72.78 · 42 PDB
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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/mertk-p-ala948 (accessed [today's date]).
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