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diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java
index 8fb668a..fb81e66 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import jalview.io.FastaFile;
 import jalview.io.FileParse;
 import jalview.io.gff.SequenceOntologyFactory;
 import jalview.io.gff.SequenceOntologyI;
+import jalview.util.Comparison;
 import jalview.util.DBRefUtils;
 import jalview.util.MapList;
 
@@ -679,16 +680,21 @@ public abstract class EnsemblSeqProxy extends EnsemblRestClient
     {
       complement.append(",");
     }
-    if ("HGMD_MUTATION".equalsIgnoreCase(allele))
+
+    /*
+     * some 'alleles' are actually descriptive terms 
+     * e.g. HGMD_MUTATION, PhenCode_variation
+     * - we don't want to 'reverse complement' these
+     */
+    if (!Comparison.isNucleotideSequence(allele, true))
     {
       complement.append(allele);
     }
     else
     {
-      char[] alleles = allele.toCharArray();
-      for (int i = alleles.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+      for (int i = allele.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--)
       {
-        complement.append(Dna.getComplement(alleles[i]));
+        complement.append(Dna.getComplement(allele.charAt(i)));
       }
     }
   }