RXRA

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

RXRA gene and transcript details

Gene Name
retinoid X receptor, alpha

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000186350 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 9 : 137,218,478 - 137,328,460 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (1386 bases)Protein (462 aa)
ENST00000481739 ENSP00000419692
NM_002957.4
P19793

Summary of RXRA in Cardiomyopathies


RXRA variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering RXRA 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 Variants1500.00216
Truncating10.00001
Missense1160.00158
Inframe20.00002
Splice Site310.00056

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