SCN10A

This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the SCN10A 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:

SCN10A gene and transcript details

Gene Name
sodium channel, voltage-gated, type X, alpha subunit

Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000185313 - Locus Reference Genomic:

Genomic Location
Chromosome 3 : 38,738,840 - 38,835,501 (reverse strand)
View in: Ensembl - UCSC Genome Browser


Canonical Seqs Transcript (5868 bases)Protein (1956 aa)
ENST00000449082 ENSP00000390600
NM_006514.2
Q9Y5Y9

Summary of SCN10A in Cardiomyopathies


SCN10A variants in ExAC

Details of the protein-altering SCN10A 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 Variants9190.01528
Truncating620.00100
Missense7760.01324
Inframe90.00007
Splice Site720.00097

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