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R456C

AlphaMissense: likely benign (0.27)Uncertain significanceTransmembrane · predicted
ArginineCysteine at position 456 · Cytoplasmic loop 3 · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Interactive structure
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Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense
0.274
likely benign
AlphaFold pLDDT
86
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 conditionsCataract 41; Wolfram syndrome 1; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Wolfram-like syndrome; WFS1-related disorder
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.0048%
cDNA changec.1366C>T
ClinVar accessionVCV001318767
Last evaluated2025/11/23 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for2★ documented assertion

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance for Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); WFS1-related spectrum (unresolved mode) (dominant or recessive). ClinVar records this under a WFS1-spectrum label that spans both disease families — recessive Wolfram syndrome (biallelic) and the dominant WFS1-related disorders. The label does not resolve which applies, and it is not a severity statement.

  • Cataract 41autosomal dominant · OMIM 116400submitted as: Cataract 41
  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • 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-like syndromeautosomal dominant · OMIM 614296submitted as: Wolfram-like syndrome
  • WFS1-related spectrum (unresolved mode)dominant or recessivesubmitted as: WFS1-related disorder
  • 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 0.0048% · 78 / 1,612,562 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
African / African American · AF 0.020%

Highest in African / African American: AF 0.020% (15 of 74,930 alleles), 4.1x 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.
African / African American0.020%15 / 74,9300~1 in 2500
Admixed American0.015%9 / 60,0120~1 in 3330
East Asian0.0089%4 / 44,8860~1 in 5610
Remaining individuals0.0048%3 / 62,4680~1 in 10410
European (non-Finnish)0.0036%43 / 1,179,9260~1 in 13720
South Asian0.0033%3 / 91,0760~1 in 15180
Finnish · under-sampled0.0016%1 / 62,6660

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

R456C — WFS1 Molecular Atlas Card

Variant type: Missense Substitution: Arginine (R) → Cysteine (C) at position 456 Domain context: Cytoplasmic loop 3


AlphaMissense

  • Pathogenicity score: 0.2743
  • Class: likely benign

AlphaFold confidence

  • pLDDT at residue 456: 85.69

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 Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); WFS1-related spectrum (unresolved mode) (dominant or recessive)

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance for Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); WFS1-related spectrum (unresolved mode) (dominant or recessive). ClinVar records this under a WFS1-spectrum label that spans both disease families — recessive Wolfram syndrome (biallelic) and the dominant WFS1-related disorders. The label does not resolve which applies, and it is not a severity statement.

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: Cataract 41; Wolfram syndrome 1; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Wolfram-like syndrome; WFS1-related disorder
  • cDNA change: c.1366C>T
  • ClinVar accession: VCV001318767
  • Last evaluated: 2025/11/23 00:00
  • Submissions: 1

Card generated by wolfram-atlas-batch (missense AlphaMissense mint) on 2026-06-08T02:27:33.546032Z. AlphaMissense (Cheng et al. 2023) · AlphaFold model v6 · UniProt O76024.

Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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