SCN8A p.Phe1217=
c.3651C>T · rs748846878 · VCV2643002
Likely benign
Multiple submitters
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Multiple submitters ★★☆☆
ClinVar · 2 submitters
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00223%, eas)
Conditions
1
early-infantile DEE
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 -5.3 | GERP -1.6 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 6.547 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00223%
East Asian · 1/44,844 alleles
Filtering AF
7.9e-05%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 5.4e-05%
Overall
0.000372%
6/1,613,284 alleles · very rare
exomes 6/1,461,014 · genomes 0/152,270 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| East Asiangrpmax | 0.00223% | 44,844 |
| African / African-American | 0.00133% | 75,012 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.000339% | 294,869 |
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
- SCN8A
- Protein
- p.Phe1217=
- Coding
- c.3651C>T
- MANE Select
- NM_001330260
- dbSNP
- rs748846878
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr12:51774194 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.189 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 68.90 · 7 PDB
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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/scn8a-p-phe1217 (accessed [today's date]).
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