MYLK

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

MYLK gene and transcript details

Gene Name
myosin light chain kinase

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000065534 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 3 : 123,332,952 - 123,512,688 (reverse strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (5742 bases)Protein (1914 aa)
ENST00000360304 ENSP00000353452
NM_053025.3
Q15746

Summary of MYLK in Cardiomyopathies


MYLK variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering MYLK 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 Variants7560.01279
Truncating300.00034
Missense6310.01081
Inframe60.00017
Splice Site890.00147

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