MERTK p.Val290=
c.870C>T · rs759345122 · VCV1905542
Likely benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 2 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00834%, 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 1.4 | GERP 0.47, phastCons 0.78 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 7.068 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00834%
Admixed American · 5/59,980 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00323%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.00207%
Overall
0.000372%
6/1,613,816 alleles · very rare
exomes 4/1,461,808 · genomes 2/152,008 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| Admixed Americangrpmax | 0.00834% | 11,996 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 8.47e-05% | 1,179,958 |
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.Val290=
- Coding
- c.870C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_006343
- dbSNP
- rs759345122
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr2:111968162 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.787 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 72.78 · 42 PDB
- Residue 290
- the fibronectin type-iii 1 domain
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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-val290 (accessed [today's date]).
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