MYH11

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the MYH11 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:

MYH11 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
myosin, heavy chain 11, smooth muscle

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000133392 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 16 : 15,797,848 - 15,932,109 (reverse strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (5916 bases)Protein (1972 aa)
ENST00000300036 ENSP00000300036
NM_002474.2
P35749

Summary of MYH11 in Cardiomyopathies


MYH11 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering MYH11 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 Variants7820.01204
Truncating160.00013
Missense6380.00981
Inframe70.00024
Splice Site1210.00187

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