MYBPC3 in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)

The role of rare variants in MYBPC3 as causative mutations in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is described below. By comparing the frequency of MYBPC3 variants in large HCM clinical cohorts to the background population rate in the ExAC database, the proportion of HCM patients with pathogenic mutations in MYBPC3 can be estimated, as well as the likelihood that a rare (population allele frequency <0.0001) MYBPC3 variant identified in a HCM 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 MYBPC3 variants in HCM: 17.06% (p<0.0001)

Based on an analysis of all rare protein-altering variants (MAF<0.0001 in ExAC) in MYBPC3 found in 6179 HCM samples sequenced by OMGL and LMM and in reference samples of the ExAC population database.


Metrics by Variant Class:
All VarsTruncatingNon-Truncating
Excess in HCM 17.06%
p<0.0001
9.07%
p<0.0001
7.99%
p<0.0001
Etiological fraction 0.91
0.91 - 0.92
0.99
0.99 - 0.99
0.82
0.80 - 0.84
Odds Ratio 11.70
10.67 - 12.82
118.77
86.00 - 168.20
5.70
5.12 - 6.35

The Etiological Fraction (EF) is the proportion of affected carriers where the variant caused HCM. 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.



SourceSamples
Tested
Variant
Type
Variants
detected
Frequency
in HCM
Frequency
in ExAC
Case Excess
in HCM
Combined
(OMGL1 + LMM2)
6179All1176 0.190320.019700.17062
Truncating566 0.091600.000860.09074
Non-Truncating610 0.098720.018840.07988
OMGL13267All636 0.194670.019700.17497
Truncating298 0.091220.000860.09036
Non-Truncating338 0.103460.018840.08462
LMM22912All540 0.185440.019700.16574
Truncating268 0.092030.000860.09117
Non-Truncating272 0.093410.018840.07457

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