MERTK p.Asp989=
c.2967C>T · rs140956730 · VCV752860
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00534%, afr)
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 -5.9 | GERP -3.1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 4.793 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00534%
African / African-American · 4/74,884 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00267%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.00236%
Overall
0.00291%
47/1,613,868 alleles · very rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 0.00534% | 18,721 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.00356% | 28,096 |
| South Asian | 0.0011% | 91,088 |
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.Asp989=
- Coding
- c.2967C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_006343
- dbSNP
- rs140956730
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr2:112028831 (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-asp989 (accessed [today's date]).
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