Titin Variants in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

TTN Transcript / Exon Structure & Truncating Variants in Cardiomyopathy Studies

Titin - Exon 18

Details for Exon 18 of the Titin gene - Sequence Coordinates, Associated Transcripts, Functional Data, Truncating Variants and Sequence.

Coordinates

The genomic coordinates of HG19 and Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) and the CDS coordinates of the Titin meta-transcript for exon 18 are displayed below.

Transcripts

Exon 18 occurs in the following Titin transcripts (the number indicates the exon rank of exon 18 in each transcript).

Functional Data

Region: This exon occurs in the near Z-disk region of the titin protein.

Domains: This exon codes for the following domain(s) - Ig-like 3.

PSI: The "proportion spliced-in" (an estimate of the percentage of TTN transcripts that incorporate this exon based on RNAseq data) is 100% in DCM (LV tissue of 84 end-stage patients) and 100% in GTEx (LV tissue of 105 samples from Genotype-Tissue Expression project). (See Ref. 1 for details)

Symmetry: This exon is assymmetric, i.e. the length of the exon is not a multiple of three and therefore removal of it will alter the reading frame.

References
1. A. M. Roberts, J. S. Ware, D. S. Herman et al. Integrated allelic, transcriptional, and phenomic dissection of the cardiac effects of titin truncations in health and disease. Sci. Transl. Med. 7, 270ra6 (2015).

Truncating Variants

The following TTN truncating variants affecting this exon have been described in major published studies (click on the study name for more details):

Sequence

Size of Exon: 259 bases           Ensembl ID: ENSE00002288113

Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics Group