GLA in Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM)

The role of rare variants in GLA as causative mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy is described below. By comparing the frequency of GLA variants in large DCM clinical cohorts to the background population rate in the ExAC database, the proportion of DCM patients with pathogenic mutations in GLA can be estimated, as well as the likelihood that a rare (population allele frequency <0.0001) GLA variant identified in a DCM patient is disease-causing. Summary data for different variant classes (all protein-altering variants, loss of function truncating variants and non-truncating variants) is highlighted - see the table below for full details of this analysis.

Excess of GLA variants in DCM: -0.10% (p=1.0000)

Based on an analysis of all rare protein-altering variants (MAF<0.0001 in ExAC) in GLA found in 541 DCM samples sequenced by OMGL and LMM and in reference samples of the ExAC population database. As there is no excess burden of variation in the disease cohort, this analysis suggests that GLA variants do not contribute to DCM.

Metrics by Variant Class:

	All Vars	Truncating	Non-Truncating
Excess in DCM	-0.10% p=1.0000	0.00% p=1.0000	-0.10% p=1.0000
Etiological fraction	-	-	-
Odds Ratio	0.93 0.06 - 15.06	0.00 0.00 - 0.00	0.93 0.06 - 15.06

The Etiological Fraction (EF) is the proportion of affected carriers where the variant caused DCM. The Odds Ratio (OR) describes the odds of having a rare variant in the patient cohort to the odds in the ExAC cohort. Fisher's exact test p-values are displayed for case excess, 95% confidence intervals for EFs and ORs.

Source	Samples Tested	Variant Type	Variants detected	Frequency in DCM	Frequency in ExAC	Case Excess in DCM
Combined (OMGL1 + LMM2)	541	All	0	0.00000	0.00100	-0.00100
		Truncating	0	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000
		Non-Truncating	0	0.00000	0.00100	-0.00100

OMGL1	355	All	0	0.00000	0.00100	-0.00100
		Truncating	0	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000
		Non-Truncating	0	0.00000	0.00100	-0.00100

LMM2	186	All	0	0.00000	0.00100	-0.00100
		Truncating	0	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000
		Non-Truncating	0	0.00000	0.00100	-0.00100

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