TMEM237 p.Ala54=
c.162T>C · VCV4724178
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 8.5e-05%, nfe)
Conditions
1
Joubert syndrome 14
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 0.15 | GERP -5.3, phastCons 0.001 |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 7.776 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
8.5e-05%
European (non-Finnish) · 1/1,177,110 alleles
Overall
6.88e-05%
1/1,454,022 alleles · very rare
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
- TMEM237
- Protein
- p.Ala54=
- Coding
- c.162T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_001044385
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr2:201636860 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 1.318 · pLI <0.01 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 63.79
- Residue 54
- the 'disordered' region
Similar variants
- TMEM237 c.136+1G>T Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 c.553+1G>A Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 c.677+1G>A Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 c.869+1G>A Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 c.943+1G>T Pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 p.Arg109Ter Pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 p.Arg18Ter Pathogenic ★★ same condition
- TMEM237 p.Arg301Ter Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic ★★ same condition
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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/tmem237-p-ala54 (accessed [today's date]).
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