HSPB7

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the HSPB7 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:

HSPB7 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
heat shock 27kDa protein family, member 7 (cardiovascular)

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000173641 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 1 : 16,342,075 - 16,344,458 (reverse strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (510 bases)Protein (170 aa)
ENST00000311890 ENSP00000310111
NM_014424.4
Q9UBY9

Summary of HSPB7 in Cardiomyopathies


HSPB7 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering HSPB7 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 Variants830.00157
Truncating50.00005
Missense710.00142
Inframe10.00001
Splice Site60.00009

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