Research Article

A Novel Missense WFS1 Variant: Expanding the Mutational Spectrum Associated with Nonsyndromic Low-Frequency Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Table 2

Characteristics of WFS1 variant and disease-causing effects based on various medical databases.

Gene symbolNucleotide changeType of variationGene subregionAmino acid
change
MutationTasterPolyPhen-2LRTFathmmPathogenicity

WFS1c.2530G > TMissenseExon 8p.Ala844SerDisease causingPossibly damagingDeleteriousDeleteriousVUS

Abbreviations. c: variation at cDNA level; p: variation at protein level; VUS: variant of uncertain significance.