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c.1104_1105insT

FrameshiftF1Likely pathogenicTransmembrane · predicted
Frameshift variant · frameshift point at position 369 · Lumenal loop 1 · WFS1 (Wolframin)

F1Frameshift, NMD-targeted — null allele

Wild-type vs Translated Product

Wild-type · full length
Full wild-type wolframin · 890 aa — frameshift point at residue 369
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Translated product
Native sequence to residue 368; everything highlighted is non-native (scrambled) or lost
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Left: full-length wild-type wolframin (890 aa) with the frameshift point at residue 369 marked. Right: the same model with the non-native (scrambled) and lost region (residues 369–890) marked — what the frameshift transcript fails to produce as native protein.

Structural / NMD Prediction

Variant type
Frameshift
NMD status
NMD-targeted
high confidence
Schema
F1
Frameshift, NMD-targeted — null allele
Native protein retained
41.3%
PTC at aa 369

Stop codon at position 369 is more than 50 nt upstream of the last exon-exon junction (~aa 413). The 50-nt rule predicts the transcript is degraded by nonsense-mediated decay. No truncated protein is produced; functionally a null allele.

Therapeutic Implication · F1

The frameshift creates a premature termination codon well upstream of the last exon-exon junction; the 50-nt rule predicts the transcript is degraded by nonsense-mediated decay. No frameshifted protein is produced — functionally a null allele. Therapeutic options: (a) translational readthrough drugs (Ataluren/PTC124, aminoglycosides) — notably LESS effective for frameshifts than for nonsense variants, because reading through the PTC still yields out-of-frame protein; (b) gene therapy via allele replacement is the higher-yield path.

Protein Domains

Retained (aa 1–368)
  • N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)1310
  • Transmembrane helix 1311331
  • Cytoplasmic loop 1332340
  • Transmembrane helix 2341361
Lost / non-native (downstream)
  • Transmembrane helix 3371391
  • Cytoplasmic loop 2392400
  • Transmembrane helix 4401421
  • Lumenal loop 2422431
  • Transmembrane helix 5432452
  • Cytoplasmic loop 3453461
  • Transmembrane helix 6462482
  • Lumenal loop 3483496
  • Transmembrane helix 7497517
  • Cytoplasmic loop 4518532
  • Transmembrane helix 8533553
  • Lumenal loop 4554573
  • Transmembrane helix 9574594
  • Cytoplasmic loop 5 / pre-lumenal595599
  • C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)600890

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationLikely pathogenic
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Associated conditionsWolfram syndrome 1
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00066%
cDNA changec.1104_1105insT
ClinVar variantNM_006005.3(WFS1):c.1104_1105insT (p.Lys369Ter)
ClinVar accessionVCV003237400
Last evaluated2024/02/03 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Likely pathogenic for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). Classic Wolfram syndrome is recessive: a single copy does not produce it, and this classification says nothing about a carrier's own risk.

  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • This rests on a single submitter (1★). Treat the conditions above as submitted, not as documented phenotypes.
  • 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: 1★ single submitter. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.00066% · 1 / 152,166 alleles
Homozygotes
0

Every ancestry group with observed alleles falls below the reporting threshold (min 2 alleles, min 500 sampled) — too sparse to name a highest-frequency population.

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 American · under-sampled0.0024%1 / 41,4420

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.

Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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Full Variant Card

c.1104_1105insT — WFS1 Molecular Atlas Card

Variant type: Frameshift Frameshift point: residue 369 Predicted premature stop (PTC): residue 369 Domain context (where the frame breaks): Lumenal loop 1


Schema category: F1 — Frameshift, NMD-targeted — null allele

The frameshift creates a premature termination codon well upstream of the last exon-exon junction; the 50-nt rule predicts the transcript is degraded by nonsense-mediated decay. No frameshifted protein is produced — functionally a null allele. Therapeutic options: (a) translational readthrough drugs (Ataluren/PTC124, aminoglycosides) — notably LESS effective for frameshifts than for nonsense variants, because reading through the PTC still yields out-of-frame protein; (b) gene therapy via allele replacement is the higher-yield path.


Premature-stop prediction

  • Frameshift point: aa 369
  • Predicted PTC: aa 369 (0 codons downstream of the frame break)
  • Method: deterministic translation of edited NM_006005.3 CDS (frameshift position = first changed residue, HGVS convention)
  • Confidence: high

NMD prediction

  • Status: NMD-targeted
  • Confidence: high
  • Reasoning: Stop codon at position 369 is more than 50 nt upstream of the last exon-exon junction (~aa 413). The 50-nt rule predicts the transcript is degraded by nonsense-mediated decay. No truncated protein is produced; functionally a null allele.

Protein consequence

  • Native (wild-type) sequence retained: aa 1 – 368 (41.3% of full-length protein)
  • Non-native scrambled stretch: aa 369 – 368 (0 residues of out-of-frame sequence)
  • Lost beyond the PTC: aa 369 – 890 (522 residues)

Native domains retained (upstream of the frameshift)

  • N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) (aa 1–310)
  • Transmembrane helix 1 (aa 311–331)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 1 (aa 332–340)
  • Transmembrane helix 2 (aa 341–361)

Domain interrupted at the frameshift point

  • Lumenal loop 1 — native aa 362–368 retained; aa 369–370 replaced by non-native sequence

Native domains downstream of the frameshift (lost or non-native)

  • Transmembrane helix 3 (aa 371–391)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 2 (aa 392–400)
  • Transmembrane helix 4 (aa 401–421)
  • Lumenal loop 2 (aa 422–431)
  • Transmembrane helix 5 (aa 432–452)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 3 (aa 453–461)
  • Transmembrane helix 6 (aa 462–482)
  • Lumenal loop 3 (aa 483–496)
  • Transmembrane helix 7 (aa 497–517)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 4 (aa 518–532)
  • Transmembrane helix 8 (aa 533–553)
  • Lumenal loop 4 (aa 554–573)
  • Transmembrane helix 9 (aa 574–594)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 5 / pre-lumenal (aa 595–599)
  • C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) (aa 600–890)

Clinical evidence

Inheritance and scope

Likely pathogenic — for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300)

ClinVar classifies this variant as Likely pathogenic for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). Classic Wolfram syndrome is recessive: a single copy does not produce it, and this classification says nothing about a carrier's own risk.

This rests on a single submitter (1★). Treat the conditions above as submitted, not as documented phenotypes. 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: Likely pathogenic
  • Review status: criteria provided, single submitter
  • Associated conditions: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • cDNA change: c.1104_1105insT
  • ClinVar accession: VCV003237400
  • Last evaluated: 2024/02/03 00:00
  • Submissions: 1

Why this variant matters

The frame breaks early enough that the premature stop is caught by nonsense-mediated decay — the transcript is degraded before any out-of-frame protein accumulates. That makes this, in effect, a clean null allele: the atlas points the therapeutic conversation at gene replacement, and notes that readthrough drugs are a weaker fit here than for true nonsense variants because reading through the stop still yields scrambled protein.


Card generated by wolfram-atlas-batch skill (v2 — frameshift pipeline) on 2026-06-08T02:15:02.340258Z. NMD rule and schema definitions: reference/nmd_rules.md, reference/card_schema_extension.md. CDS reference: NM_006005.3 (171..2843). WFS1 reference: UniProt O76024, AlphaFold model v6.