NF1

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the NF1 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:

NF1 gene and transcript details

Gene Name
neurofibromin 1

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000196712 - Locus Reference Genomic: LRG_214

Genomic Location
Chromosome 17 : 29,422,328 - 29,701,173 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (8454 bases)Protein (2818 aa)
ENST00000356175 ENSP00000348498
LRG_214t1LRG_214p1
NM_000267.3

Summary of NF1 in Cardiomyopathies


NF1 variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering NF1 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 Variants6130.00904
Truncating260.00029
Missense4750.00694
Inframe30.00006
Splice Site1090.00176

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