USP18 p.Ser298=
c.894T>C · rs781709059 · VCV793493
Likely benign
Single submitter
Classification
Likely benign
ClinVar
Review
Single submitter ★☆☆☆
ClinVar · 1 submitter
gnomAD v4.1
Rare
very rare (popmax 0.00843%, sas)
Computational evidence
| Protein change | ||
| Missense predictors do not apply to this variant type; conservation carries the signal. | ||
| Splicing | ||
| SpliceAI | <0.2 | all four deltas below 0.2 · T>A here scores Δ0.70 · evaluated, not missing |
|---|---|---|
| Constraint at this position | ||
| Conservation | phyloP -3 | |
| Overall | ||
| CADD | 0.219 | PHRED · no single calibrated threshold — expert panels disagree |
Population frequency
gnomAD v4.1 · exomes + genomes
Grpmax group
0.00843%
South Asian · 7/83,078 alleles
Filtering AF
0.00389%
ClinGen BA1/BS1 input
FAF95, joint · FAF99 0.00274%
Overall
0.000506%
8/1,581,532 alleles · very rare
exomes 8/1,429,780 · genomes 0/151,752 · joint denominator
| Ancestry group | Frequency | 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| South Asiangrpmax | 0.00843% | 11,868 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 8.58e-05% | 1,165,255 |
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
- USP18
- Protein
- p.Ser298=
- Coding
- c.894T>C
- MANE Select
- NM_017414
- dbSNP
- rs781709059
- Type
- single nucleotide variant
- Location
- chr22:18173152 (GRCh38)
- Gene constraint
- LOEUF 0.459 · pLI 1.00 (gnomAD)
- Structure
- AlphaFold pLDDT 83.60 · 2 PDB
- Residue 298
- the usp domain; a UniProt-annotated variant site (in ptorch2)
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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/usp18-p-ser298 (accessed [today's date]).
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