The role of rare variants in NEXN as causative mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy is described below. By comparing the frequency of NEXN variants in large DCM clinical cohorts to the background population rate in the ExAC database, the proportion of DCM patients with pathogenic mutations in NEXN can be estimated, as well as the likelihood that a rare (population allele frequency <0.0001) NEXN 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 NEXN variants in DCM: 2.45% (p=0.0071)
Based on an analysis of all rare protein-altering variants (MAF<0.0001 in ExAC) in NEXN found in 156 DCM samples sequenced by OMGL and LMM and in reference samples of the ExAC population database. Please note as this is based on a small DCM cohort, the data should be used with caution.
| All Vars | Truncating | Non-Truncating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excess in DCM | 2.45% p=0.0071 |
0.58% p=0.0975 |
1.87% p=0.0241 |
| Etiological fraction | 0.77 0.28 - 0.90 |
0.90 0.00 - 0.98 |
0.74 0.01 - 0.90 |
| Odds Ratio | 4.35 1.39 - 10.44 |
10.06 0.25 - 60.33 |
3.78 1.01 - 9.94 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMM2 | 156 | All | 5 | 0.03205 | 0.00756 | 0.02449 |
| Truncating | 1 | 0.00641 | 0.00064 | 0.00577 | ||
| Non-Truncating | 4 | 0.02564 | 0.00692 | 0.01872 |
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