GAA

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

GAA gene and transcript details

Gene Name
glucosidase, alpha; acid

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000171298 - Locus Reference Genomic: LRG_673

Genomic Location
Chromosome 17 : 78,078,386 - 78,093,130 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (2856 bases)Protein (952 aa)
ENST00000302262 ENSP00000305692
LRG_673t1LRG_673p1
NM_000152.3
P10253

Summary of GAA in Cardiomyopathies


GAA variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering GAA 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 Variants5470.01048
Truncating470.00062
Missense4330.00866
Inframe40.00005
Splice Site630.00117

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