KCNK3

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the KCNK3 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:

KCNK3 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
potassium channel, subfamily K, member 3

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000171303 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 2 : 26,915,744 - 26,951,436 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (1182 bases)Protein (394 aa)
ENST00000302909 ENSP00000306275
NM_002246.2
O14649

Summary of KCNK3 in Cardiomyopathies


KCNK3 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering KCNK3 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 Variants720.00126
Truncating30.00003
Missense680.00126
Inframe00.00000
Splice Site10.00000

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