GJA5

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the GJA5 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:

GJA5 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
gap junction protein, alpha 5, 40kDa

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000143140 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 1 : 147,230,270 - 147,231,346 (reverse strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (1074 bases)Protein (358 aa)
ENST00000271348 ENSP00000271348
NM_005266.5
P36382

Summary of GJA5 in Cardiomyopathies


GJA5 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering GJA5 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 Variants1180.00154
Truncating70.00007
Missense1080.00145
Inframe20.00002
Splice Site10.00001

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