MTFMT p.Ala17=
c.51C>T · rs1340259978 · VCV3005626
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00145%, 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 -1.6 | GERP -2.2 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 2.721 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00145%
African / African-American · 1/69,098 alleles
Filtering AF
8.3e-05%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 5.6e-05%
Overall
0.000333%
5/1,502,626 alleles · very rare
exomes 4/1,350,482 · genomes 1/152,144 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 0.00145% | 69,098 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000355% | 281,524 |
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
- MTFMT
- Protein
- p.Ala17=
- Coding
- c.51C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_139242
- dbSNP
- rs1340259978
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr15:65029563 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 1.304 · pLI <0.01 · ClinGen HI gene assoc. with recessive phenotype (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 86.08
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- MTFMT p.Ser209Leu Pathogenic ★★ ⚠ same type
- MTFMT p.Trp9Ter Pathogenic ★★ same type
- MTFMT p.Ala213Thr Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
- MTFMT p.Ala280Val Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
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/mtfmt-p-ala17 (accessed [today's date]).
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