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A179T

Category 2 — Moderately DestabilizingUncertain significanceCytoplasmic · predictedSource card
AlanineThreonine at position 179 · N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type A179 — hydrogen bond to M183
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DynaMut2 mutant · A179T
Mutant T179 — van der waals to M183 lost (2 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

2 lost3 gained13 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondA175A175Preserved
Hydrogen bondV176V176Preserved
Hydrogen bondM183M183Preserved
Polar contactA175A175Preserved
Polar contactV176V176Preserved
Polar contactR177R177Preserved
Polar contactL181L181Preserved
Polar contactV182V182Preserved
Polar contactM183M183Preserved
Polar contactL381Gained
Polar contactE385Gained
Van der WaalsR177R177Preserved
Van der WaalsL181L181Preserved
Van der WaalsM183Lost
Van der WaalsL381Gained
HydrophobicL381L381Preserved
HydrophobicF384F384Preserved
HydrophobicE385Lost

Lost / gained / preserved interatomic contacts at the variant residue, from the DynaMut2 (Arpeggio) interaction analysis of the wild-type and energy-minimized mutant structures.

Computational Predictions

DynaMut2 ΔΔG
-2.09kcal/mol
Destabilising — large
AlphaMissense
0.934
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
89
model confidence
Schema
Cat 2
Category 2 — Moderately Destabilizing
ΔΔG confidence: Standard confidence · Cytoplasmic

This variant is in a water-facing region, which is the regime the stability predictor was built and benchmarked for. Ordinary predictor error still applies.

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Associated conditionsCataract 41; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Wolfram syndrome 1; Wolfram-like syndrome; Inborn genetic diseases
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00014%
cDNA changec.535G>A
ClinVar accessionVCV000229647
Last evaluated2026/02/23 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for2★ documented assertion

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele for Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296). These are two clinically distinct disease families: classic Wolfram syndrome requires two affected copies, while the dominant WFS1-related disorders do not. One label covers both, and it does not tell you which applies to a given person.

  • Cataract 41autosomal dominant · OMIM 116400submitted as: Cataract 41
  • Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38)autosomal dominant · OMIM 600965submitted as: Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
  • WFS1-related diabetesautosomal dominantsubmitted as: Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Wolfram-like syndromeautosomal dominant · OMIM 614296submitted as: Wolfram-like syndrome
  • Phenotype scope is interpretation of submitted records. The computed values on this card (AlphaMissense, DynaMut2 ΔΔG, pLDDT) are measurements of the model, not of a patient.
  • Presentation cannot be generalised from neighbouring variants: one nucleotide over can present very differently. Structural similarity supports a mechanistic hypothesis, never a phenotype claim.

Review status: 2★ multiple submitters, no conflicts. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.00014% · 2 / 1,461,250 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
East Asian · AF 0.0050%

Highest in East Asian: AF 0.0050% (2 of 39,700 alleles), 36.8x the global figure. The global AF describes the general population, not the at-risk group.

No homozygotes reported in gnomAD v4. For a recessive allele this is expected and is not, on its own, evidence either way.

Ancestry groupAllele freq.AC / ANHom.Carrier est.
East Asian0.0050%2 / 39,7000~1 in 9930

Source: gnomAD r4, retrieved 2026-08-21. Values are allele frequencies. The carrier estimate is derived from the allele frequency (Hardy-Weinberg, ~2·AF) and is an approximation, not a published figure — where a published carrier frequency exists it outranks this column and is cited on the card.

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — A179T Variant Card

Molecular Atlas Pilot · RareResearch.AI · Generated by wolfram-variant-card skill

Alanine → Threonine at position 179. N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). ClinVar Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele, AlphaMissense 0.934, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -2.09 kcal/mol (destabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantA179T (p.Alanine179Threonine)
DNA changec.535G>A
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV000229647
Amino acid changeAlanine (A) → Threonine (T)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 17988.56 — well-folded
DomainN-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
Position contextN-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 179 sits in N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). The wild-type residue is small/hydrophobic (alanine — methyl sidechain); the mutant is small polar (threonine — hydroxyl). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.9343
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)-2.09 (Destabilising)
Job ID178092143728
Result URLJob 178092143728 · retrieved 2026-06-08 — result self-hosted by RareResearch.AI (Biosig no longer serves this page)

Clinical Evidence

Inheritance and scope

Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele — for Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296)

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele for Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296). These are two clinically distinct disease families: classic Wolfram syndrome requires two affected copies, while the dominant WFS1-related disorders do not. One label covers both, and it does not tell you which applies to a given person.

Phenotype scope is interpretation of submitted records. The computed values on this card (AlphaMissense, DynaMut2 ΔΔG, pLDDT) are measurements of the model, not of a patient. Presentation cannot be generalised from neighbouring variants: one nucleotide over can present very differently. Structural similarity supports a mechanistic hypothesis, never a phenotype claim.

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Last evaluated2026/02/23 00:00
InheritanceAutosomal dominant pattern indicated by associated DFNA6/14/38 (WFS1 hearing loss 6).
WFS1 variant landscapeA179T is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)
  • Cataract 41
  • Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Wolfram-like syndrome
  • Inborn genetic diseases

Research Path Decision Tree

ΔΔG < 2  + binding site affected   →  CATEGORY 3 — docking experiments
ΔΔG 2–4                            →  CATEGORY 2 — pharmacological chaperones
ΔΔG > 4                            →  CATEGORY 1 — gene therapy
pLDDT < 50                         →  CATEGORY 5 — IDR, experimental only
Stable fold + functional site hit  →  CATEGORY 4 — site-specific docking

Final Schema Categorization

Category 2 — Moderately Destabilizing

<strong>Category 2 — Moderately Destabilizing</strong><br/><br/>|ΔΔG|=2.09 in the 2–4 range. Pharmacological chaperone candidate.


Files in this folder

  • AF-O76024-F1-model_v6.pdb — AlphaFold structure
  • A179T_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 179 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • A179T_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • A179T_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • A179T_dynamut2_summary.html — clean offline DynaMut2 result card
  • dynamut2_result.json — structured result data
  • dynamut2_result_page.html — local snapshot of the Biosig result page (asset URLs absolutized)
  • A179T_wildtype_interactions.pse / A179T_mutant_interactions.pse — PyMOL sessions

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Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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