BAG3

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the BAG3 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:

BAG3 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
BCL2-associated athanogene 3

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000151929 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 10 : 121,411,188 - 121,436,794 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (1725 bases)Protein (575 aa)
ENST00000369085 ENSP00000358081
NM_004281.3
O95817

Summary of BAG3 in Cardiomyopathies


BAG3 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering BAG3 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 Variants2710.00428
Truncating30.00003
Missense2590.00410
Inframe50.00010
Splice Site40.00004

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