APOE

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

APOE gene and transcript details

Gene Name
apolipoprotein E

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000130203 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 19 : 45,409,882 - 45,412,507 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (951 bases)Protein (317 aa)
ENST00000252486 ENSP00000252486
NM_000041.2
P02649

Summary of APOE in Cardiomyopathies


APOE variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering APOE 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 Variants1020.00150
Truncating80.00014
Missense860.00126
Inframe00.00000
Splice Site80.00011

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