ClinVar

Description

The Glu182Lys mutation in the TNNI3 gene has been reported in association with cardiomyopathy (Lakdawala N et al., 2012). Lakdawla et al. reported Glu182Lys occurred de novo in one patient with DCM and it was absent from approximately 400 control samples. Also, the NHLBI ESP Exome Variant Server reports Glu182Lys was not observed in approximately 6,000 samples from individuals of European and African American backgrounds, indicating it is not a common benign variant in these populations. Glu182Lys results in a non-conservative amino acid substitution of a negatively charged Glutamic acid with a positively charged Lysine at a position that is highly conserved across species. Furthermore, mutations in nearby codons (Lys183Asn, Lys183Glu, Asn185Lys, Arg186Gln) have been reported in association with cardiomyopathy, supporting the functional importance of this region of the protein. In summary, Glu182Lys in the TNNI3 gene is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation. The variant is found in DCM panel(s).