PPP3CA p.Ala502=
c.1506T>C · VCV3631299
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00135%, 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 0.57 | GERP -5.4, phastCons 0.92 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 5.541 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00135%
African / African-American · 1/74,256 alleles
Overall
6.21e-05%
1/1,611,494 alleles · very rare
exomes 0/1,461,310 · genomes 1/150,184 · joint denominator
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
- PPP3CA
- Protein
- p.Ala502=
- Coding
- c.1506T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_000944
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr4:101025925 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.243 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 86.24 · 21 PDB
- Residue 502
- a UniProt-annotated variant site (in iecee1; results in constitutive phosphatase activity in the absence of calmodulin); a UniProt-annotated variant site (in iecee1); the 'disordered' region
Similar variants
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- PPP3CA p.Ala447Thr Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ ⚠ same type
- PPP3CA p.Arg254Ser Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PPP3CA p.Asp234Glu Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PPP3CA p.Glu282Lys Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PPP3CA p.Glu456Ter Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PPP3CA p.His92Arg Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same type
- PPP3CA c.1081+4T>A Uncertain significance ★★ same type
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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/ppp3ca-p-ala502 (accessed [today's date]).
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