PLPBP p.Phe177=
c.531T>C · rs778025055 · VCV2032368
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.004%, afr)
Computational evidence
| Protein change | ||
| Missense predictors do not apply to this variant type; conservation carries the signal. | ||
| REVEL | 0.274 | benign-leaning |
|---|---|---|
| Splicing | ||
| SpliceAI | — | not assessed · no allele here is in the release |
| Constraint at this position | ||
| Conservation | phyloP -7 | GERP -5.1 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 4.347 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.004%
African / African-American · 3/74,940 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00106%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.000495%
Overall
0.00031%
5/1,614,112 alleles · very rare
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| African / African-Americangrpmax | 0.004% | 24,980 |
| South Asian | 0.0011% | 91,086 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 8.47e-05% | 1,180,052 |
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
- PLPBP
- Protein
- p.Phe177=
- Coding
- c.531T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_007198
- dbSNP
- rs778025055
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr8:37775415 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 1.049 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 89.49
- Residue 177
- a UniProt-annotated variant site (in epeo1); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in epeo1; decreased expression at the mrna level; undetectable at the protein level in patient's fibroblasts)
Similar variants
- PLPBP p.Phe177Ser Uncertain significance ★ ⚠ same residue
- PLPBP c.207+1G>T Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PLPBP c.320-2A>G Pathogenic ★★ same type
- PLPBP p.Arg241Gln Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PLPBP p.Pro87Leu Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ ⚠ same type
- PLPBP p.Ala232= Uncertain significance ★★ same type
- PLPBP p.Arg205Trp Uncertain significance ★★ ⚠ same type
- PLPBP p.Arg250Gln 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/plpbp-p-phe177 (accessed [today's date]).
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