ACE

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the ACE gene, including its role in inherited cardiac disease. For more details, click on the links below, or for a specific variant, enter the HGVS variant here:

ACE gene and transcript details

Gene Name
angiotensin I converting enzyme

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000159640 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 17 : 61,554,456 - 61,574,727 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (3918 bases)Protein (1306 aa)
ENST00000290866 ENSP00000290866
NM_000789.3
P12821

Summary of ACE in Cardiomyopathies


ACE variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering ACE variants (missense, loss of function truncating, inframe indels and splice site regions) found in the ExAC database are shown below. To view lists of specific variants with links to detailed population frequency data, click on the variant numbers - for all or a particular variant class.

Total VariantsCombined frequency of rare variants
All Variants6850.01159
Truncating420.00053
Missense5570.00980
Inframe110.00022
Splice Site750.00105

Rare variants are defined as having a mean allelic frequency of less than 0.0001.