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D797=

SynonymousSilentLikely benignLumenal · predicted
Synonymous variant · codon at position 797 · C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

SilentSilent — no amino-acid change

Interactive 3D Structure

Interactive structure
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AlphaFold wild-type wolframin · the variant site near residue 797 (C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)) is highlighted.

Variant Assessment

Variant type
Synonymous
Schema
Silent
Silent — no amino-acid change
Domain
C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)
Status

Therapeutic Implication · Silent

No amino-acid change (D797 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 classificationBenign/Likely benign
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Associated conditionsAutosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Wolfram-like syndrome; Wolfram syndrome 1; Cataract 41
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Low frequency · AF 0.015%
cDNA changec.2391C>T
Protein consequenceD797=
ClinVar variantNM_006005.3(WFS1):c.2391C>T (p.Asp797=)
ClinVar accessionVCV001600187
Last evaluated2025/08/09 00:00

Observed in the general population.

Classified for2★ documented assertion

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

  • 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
  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Cataract 41autosomal dominant · OMIM 116400submitted as: Cataract 41
  • 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 0.015% · 244 / 1,612,432 alleles
Homozygotes
3
Highest-frequency population
South Asian · AF 0.223%

Highest in South Asian: AF 0.223% (203 of 91,064 alleles), 14.7x the global figure. The global AF describes the general population, not the at-risk group.

3 homozygotes reported in gnomAD v4 (3 South Asian). gnomAD excludes individuals with severe pediatric disease, so homozygotes in this dataset argue against a fully penetrant severe recessive phenotype and belong in the clinical picture. This is interpretive signal, not a classification.

Ancestry groupAllele freq.AC / ANHom.Carrier est.
South Asian0.223%203 / 91,0643~1 in 220
Admixed American0.017%10 / 60,0180~1 in 3000
Remaining individuals0.014%9 / 62,4860~1 in 3470
African / African American0.0067%5 / 75,0520~1 in 7510
Finnish0.0032%2 / 62,5480~1 in 15640
European (non-Finnish)0.0013%15 / 1,179,8400~1 in 39330

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

D797= — WFS1 Molecular Atlas Card

Variant type: Synonymous (silent) Codon: position 797 (Aspartic acid, D) — amino acid unchanged Domain context: C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)


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

No amino-acid change (D797 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

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

ClinVar classifies this variant as Benign/Likely benign for Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400). 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: Benign/Likely benign
  • Review status: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
  • Associated conditions: Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Wolfram-like syndrome; Wolfram syndrome 1; Cataract 41
  • cDNA change: c.2391C>T
  • ClinVar accession: VCV001600187
  • Last evaluated: 2025/08/09 00:00
  • Submissions: 1

Card generated by wolfram-atlas-batch (synonymous pipeline) on 2026-06-08T02:56:22.583123Z. WFS1: UniProt O76024, AlphaFold v6. Synonymous variants carry no protein-structural effect.