Benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 10 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Common
common (popmax 92.7%, afr) — too common for a highly-penetrant pathogenic allele
Conditions
1
microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II
Computational evidence
| Protein change | ||
| Missense predictors do not apply to this variant type; conservation carries the signal. | ||
| Splicing | ||
| SpliceAI | <0.2 | no splice effect predicted · four deltas, not one · how we know |
|---|---|---|
| Constraint at this position | ||
| Conservation | phyloP -3.4 | GERP -3 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 1.377 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
92.7%
African / African-American · 69,521/75,036 alleles
Filtering AF
92.1%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 91.8%
Overall
87%
1,403,007/1,612,428 alleles · common
exomes 1,269,348/1,460,178 · genomes 133,659/152,250 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 92.7% | 1 |
| Ashkenazi Jewishnot grpmax-eligible | 88.7% | 1 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 87.9% | 1 |
| Remaining individualsnot grpmax-eligible | 87% | 1 |
| Finnishnot grpmax-eligible | 84.2% | 1 |
| Middle Eastern | 84% | 1 |
| Admixed American | 83.6% | 1 |
| Amishnot grpmax-eligible | 79.3% | 1 |
| South Asian | 78.9% | 1 |
| East Asian | 78.2% | 1 |
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
- PCNT
- Protein
- p.Ala852=
- Coding
- c.2556T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_006031
- dbSNP
- rs8131546
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr21:46363881 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.943 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
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- PCNT p.Arg1923Ter Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
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/pcnt-p-ala852 (accessed [today's date]).
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