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L548=

SynonymousSilentLikely benignTransmembrane · predicted
Synonymous variant · codon at position 548 · Transmembrane helix 8 · WFS1 (Wolframin)

SilentSilent — no amino-acid change

Interactive 3D Structure

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AlphaFold wild-type wolframin · the variant site near residue 548 (Transmembrane helix 8) is highlighted.

Variant Assessment

Variant type
Synonymous
Schema
Silent
Silent — no amino-acid change
Domain
Transmembrane helix 8
Status

Therapeutic Implication · Silent

No amino-acid change (L548 is unchanged): the codon is altered but the protein sequence is identical to wild-type. No structural, stability or AlphaMissense effect applies. Synonymous variants are typically benign unless they affect splicing or regulatory elements; this one is not adjacent to an exon boundary.

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationLikely benign
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Associated conditions
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.0012%
cDNA changec.1644G>A
Protein consequenceL548=
ClinVar variantNM_006005.3(WFS1):c.1644G>A (p.Leu548=)
ClinVar accessionVCV001629798
Last evaluated2022/10/12 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Likely benign, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records no condition for this variant. A classification without a phenotype and an inheritance mode cannot be read as a statement about Wolfram syndrome risk or severity.

  • 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 0.0012% · 20 / 1,612,328 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
European (non-Finnish) · AF 0.0016%

Highest in European (non-Finnish): AF 0.0016% (19 of 1,180,036 alleles), in line with the global figure.

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.
European (non-Finnish)0.0016%19 / 1,180,0360~1 in 31050
African / African American · under-sampled0.0013%1 / 74,9560

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.

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Full Variant Card

L548= — WFS1 Molecular Atlas Card

Variant type: Synonymous (silent) Codon: position 548 (Leucine, L) — amino acid unchanged Domain context: Transmembrane helix 8


Schema category: Silent — Silent — no amino-acid change

No amino-acid change (L548 is unchanged): the codon is altered but the protein sequence is identical to wild-type. No structural, stability or AlphaMissense effect applies. Synonymous variants are typically benign unless they affect splicing or regulatory elements; this one is not adjacent to an exon boundary.


Clinical evidence

Inheritance and scope

Likely benign — phenotype scope not stated in ClinVar

ClinVar classifies this variant as Likely benign, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records no condition for this variant. A classification without a phenotype and an inheritance mode cannot be read as a statement about Wolfram syndrome risk or severity.

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 benign
  • Review status: criteria provided, single submitter
  • cDNA change: c.1644G>A
  • ClinVar accession: VCV001629798
  • Last evaluated: 2022/10/12 00:00
  • Submissions: 1

Card generated by wolfram-atlas-batch (synonymous pipeline) on 2026-06-08T02:54:26.516716Z. WFS1: UniProt O76024, AlphaFold v6. Synonymous variants carry no protein-structural effect.