TNNT2 in Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM)

The role of rare variants in TNNT2 as causative mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy is described below. By comparing the frequency of TNNT2 variants in large DCM clinical cohorts to the background population rate in the ExAC database, the proportion of DCM patients with pathogenic mutations in TNNT2 can be estimated, as well as the likelihood that a rare (population allele frequency <0.0001) TNNT2 variant identified in a DCM patient is disease-causing. Summary data for different variant classes (all protein-altering variants, loss of function truncating variants and non-truncating variants) is highlighted - see the table below for full details of this analysis.


Excess of TNNT2 variants in DCM: 2.63% (p<0.0001)

Based on an analysis of all rare protein-altering variants (MAF<0.0001 in ExAC) in TNNT2 found in 1254 DCM samples sequenced by OMGL and LMM and in reference samples of the ExAC population database.


Metrics by Variant Class:
All VarsTruncatingNon-Truncating
Excess in DCM 2.63%
p<0.0001
-0.03%
p=1.0000
2.66%
p<0.0001
Etiological fraction 0.92
0.88 - 0.94
- 0.93
0.89 - 0.95
Odds Ratio 12.16
8.15 - 17.75
0.00
0.00 - 10.26
13.88
9.24 - 20.37

The Etiological Fraction (EF) is the proportion of affected carriers where the variant caused DCM. The Odds Ratio (OR) describes the odds of having a rare variant in the patient cohort to the odds in the ExAC cohort. Fisher's exact test p-values are displayed for case excess, 95% confidence intervals for EFs and ORs.



SourceSamples
Tested
Variant
Type
Variants
detected
Frequency
in DCM
Frequency
in ExAC
Case Excess
in DCM
Combined
(OMGL1 + LMM2)
1254All36 0.028710.002420.02629
Truncating00.000000.00030-0.00030
Non-Truncating36 0.028710.002140.02657
OMGL1498All11 0.022090.002420.01967
Truncating00.000000.00030-0.00030
Non-Truncating11 0.022090.002140.01995
LMM2756All25 0.033070.002420.03065
Truncating00.000000.00030-0.00030
Non-Truncating25 0.033070.002140.03093

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