# NM_022341.2(PDF):c.21G>A (p.Ala7=)

https://sugi.bio/variant/pdf-p-ala7

## Summary

**PDF p.Ala7= (c.21G>A)** is classified **Likely benign** in PDF (ClinVar, Single submitter, 1 submitter; last evaluated 2026-02-01). Very rare (popmax 0.00695%, nfe).

**At a glance:** Likely benign · review: Single submitter · 1 submitter · very rare (popmax 0.00695%, nfe)

## For patients & families {#patients}

This is a change in the PDF gene that is classified as likely benign — not considered disease-causing, submitted by 1 submitter.

*Reference information, not medical advice, and not a prediction for any individual. A genetic counselor or clinician can interpret what it means for you and your family.*

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## Identity {#identity}

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Gene | [PDF](https://sugi.bio/atlas/gene/PDF/) |
| Protein change (HGVS p.) | p.Ala7= |
| Coding change (HGVS c.) | c.21G>A |
| MANE Select transcript | [NM_032382](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NM_032382) (variant reported on NM_022341) |
| Variant type | single nucleotide variant |
| Location | chr16:69330550-69330550 (GRCh38) |
| ClinVar | [VCV4821641](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/4821641/) |

**All HGVS expressions:** `NC_000016.10:g.69330550C>T`, `NC_000016.9:g.69364453C>T`, `NG_009013.1:g.14074G>A`, `NG_009013.2:g.14014G>A`, `NG_033043.1:g.5046G>A`, `NG_134175.1:g.697C>T`, `NG_134175.2:g.697C>T`, `NG_193725.1:g.15C>T`, `NM_001379261.1:c.*26+263G>A`, `NM_001379262.1:c.1759+369G>A`, `NM_001379263.1:c.*26+263G>A`, `NM_001379264.1:c.*23+266G>A`, `NM_001379265.1:c.1583-1371G>A`, `NM_001379266.1:c.1414-1371G>A`, `NM_022341.2:c.21G>A`, `NM_032382.5:c.*26+263G>A`

## Computational & population evidence {#evidence}

**Concordance:** Mixed / partial computational evidence (see below).

- **Missense predictors (AlphaMissense/REVEL/SaProt) do not apply** to this variant type — they score amino-acid substitutions only. For non-missense variants the computational signal comes from conservation (below), not from a missing predictor score.
- Conservation: phyloP -0.092, GERP -0.513 — not a conserved position (phyloP < 0.1, ACGS BP7 cut)
- CADD: **PHRED 6.209**. No single ClinGen-calibrated threshold exists and the expert panels that use CADD disagree — GUCY2D/AIPL1 require ≥ 20.0 for an untranslated-region variant, ABCA4 ≥ 28.1 for a synonymous or indel variant, the Pulmonary Hypertension panel imports Pejaver 2022's missense-calibrated numbers, and the Antibody Deficiencies panel declines CADD entirely for PIK3CD. CADD v1.7 also incorporates Zoonomia phyloP, so it partly re-expresses the conservation above. *Descriptive; no threshold applied.*
- SpliceAI: **not looked up on this page** — it was served without the gene's SpliceAI index, so no lookup was made. This is a gap in this page, not in the data, and says nothing about whether a splicing effect is predicted.
- Population frequency (gnomAD v4.1): grpmax **0.00695%** (nfe) · FAF95 0.00566% · FAF99 0.00524% · 78/1,121,616 in the highest group · 83/1,474,314 alleles overall — very rare (popmax 0.00695%, nfe).

| Ancestry group | Allele frequency | 1 in |
| --- | --- | --- |
| European (non-Finnish) (grpmax) | 0.00695% | 14,380 |
| Remaining individuals (not grpmax-eligible) | 0.00351% | 28,477 |
| East Asian | 0.00287% | 34,810 |
| Finnish (not grpmax-eligible) | 0.0023% | 43,386 |
| African / African-American | 0.00148% | 67,632 |

*Computational predictors are not independent (ClinGen Variant Classification guidance): AlphaMissense (Cheng et al. 2023) carries the ACMG weight for missense and conservation (phyloP/GERP/phastCons) for non-missense; REVEL (Pejaver-2022 calibrated strength bands) and SaProt (Su et al. 2023, structure-aware, ClinVar-independent protein language model, raw LLR) are shown as orthogonal agreement signals, not additive. For frequency, the gnomAD v4.1 grpmax filtering allele frequency (FAF95) is ClinGen's designated BA1/BS1 input (gnomAD v4 guidance v3.0, June 2025); BA1/BS1 thresholds are disease-specific, not a blanket 5%. Predictions, not a clinical determination.*

## Clinical significance {#significance}

**Likely benign** — review status Single submitter *(criteria provided, single submitter)*, last evaluated 2026-02-01.

**Submitter consensus:** unanimous (1/1 Likely benign).

### Submitter classifications {#submitters}

| Submitter | Classification | Review | Method | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CeGaT Center for Human Genetics Tuebingen | Likely benign | criteria provided, single submitter | clinical testing | 2026-02-01 |

**Reported phenotype names (ClinVar):** not provided, none provided.

### Data sources & attribution {#sources}

ClinVar (NCBI — public domain, built 2026-10-11); gnomAD v4.1 (Broad Institute, built 2026-10-06); AlphaMissense (Cheng et al. 2023, © Google DeepMind — CC BY 4.0, built 2026-01-27); REVEL (Ioannidis et al. 2016 — ODbL, built 2026-07-13); SaProt (Su et al. 2023 — MIT, built 2026-07-14); SpliceAI (Illumina — free for non-commercial use, built 2026-10-13); CADD (Rentzsch et al. 2019, University of Washington — free for non-commercial use, built 2026-10-10); Conservation (phyloP/phastCons/GERP) (UCSC hg38 470-way mammal (Hiller Lab) + Ensembl Compara, built 2026-07-12); gnomAD Non-coding Constraint (Gnocchi) (Chen et al. 2024, Broad Institute — CC0, built 2026-10-11); gnomAD Regional Missense Constraint (Broad Institute — CC0, built 2026-10-13); Pangolin (Zeng & Li 2022 — CC BY 4.0, built 2026-10-11); Repeat regions (UCSC — RepeatMasker, TRF, segmental duplications, built 2026-10-11); ClinGen (ClinGen, built 2026-09-22); UniProt (CC BY 4.0); Reactome / GO (CC BY 4.0, built 2026-09-23); MaveDB (per-record license, built 2026-10-11); CIViC (CC0, built 2026-09-22); Orphanet (Orphanet, built 2026-06-12)

*Primary record: NCBI ClinVar (variation 4821641). Classifications reflect these databases as of the page's build date and may change. Free reference use — not medical advice; consult the primary submitters and a clinician.*