APOA4

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the APOA4 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:

APOA4 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
apolipoprotein A-IV

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000110244 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 11 : 116,691,583 - 116,693,907 (reverse strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (1188 bases)Protein (396 aa)
ENST00000357780 ENSP00000350425
NM_000482.3

Summary of APOA4 in Cardiomyopathies


APOA4 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering APOA4 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 Variants2260.00403
Truncating120.00021
Missense2060.00364
Inframe20.00002
Splice Site60.00016

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