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R147W

AlphaMissense: likely benign (0.15)Uncertain significanceCytoplasmic · predicted
ArginineTryptophan at position 147 · N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

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Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense
0.154
likely benign
AlphaFold pLDDT
93
model confidence
DynaMut2 ΔΔG
pending
not yet computed
ClinVar
Uncertain significance
Uncertain significance

AlphaMissense + AlphaFold card. This variant is mapped from AlphaMissense pathogenicity and AlphaFold confidence. The DynaMut2 ΔΔG stability prediction and the wild-type/mutant structural comparison (dual-pane + bond network) are computed per-variant and backfill here — they require a DynaMut2 submission, unlike the precomputed AlphaMissense score.

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Associated conditionsWolfram-like syndrome; Cataract 41; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Wolfram syndrome 1
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.0011%
cDNA changec.439C>T
ClinVar accessionVCV002739964
Last evaluated2024/04/10 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for2★ documented assertion

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance for Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). 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.

  • Wolfram-like syndromeautosomal dominant · OMIM 614296submitted as: Wolfram-like syndrome
  • Cataract 41autosomal dominant · OMIM 116400submitted as: Cataract 41
  • WFS1-related diabetesautosomal dominantsubmitted as: Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38)autosomal dominant · OMIM 600965submitted as: Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • 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 0.0011% · 15 / 1,425,578 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
South Asian · AF 0.0025%

Highest in South Asian: AF 0.0025% (2 of 81,116 alleles), 2.3x 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.
Middle Eastern · under-sampled0.018%1 / 5,6360
South Asian0.0025%2 / 81,1160~1 in 20280
Remaining individuals · under-sampled0.0017%1 / 59,0880
European (non-Finnish)0.0010%11 / 1,094,2140~1 in 49740

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

R147W — WFS1 Molecular Atlas Card

Variant type: Missense Substitution: Arginine (R) → Tryptophan (W) at position 147 Domain context: N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)


AlphaMissense

  • Pathogenicity score: 0.1537
  • Class: likely benign

AlphaFold confidence

  • pLDDT at residue 147: 92.5

DynaMut2 ΔΔG: not yet computed for this variant — AlphaMissense + AlphaFold confidence shown above. Stability ΔΔG and the wild-type/mutant structural comparison backfill behind this note.


Clinical evidence

Inheritance and scope

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

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance for Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). 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.

  • Classification: Uncertain significance
  • Review status: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
  • Associated conditions: Wolfram-like syndrome; Cataract 41; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Wolfram syndrome 1
  • cDNA change: c.439C>T
  • ClinVar accession: VCV002739964
  • Last evaluated: 2024/04/10 00:00
  • Submissions: 1

Card generated by wolfram-atlas-batch (missense AlphaMissense mint) on 2026-06-08T02:27:33.374037Z. AlphaMissense (Cheng et al. 2023) · AlphaFold model v6 · UniProt O76024.

Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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