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MYH7

Chr 14q11.2

myosin heavy chain 7

Aliases:
CMD1S
MANE:
ENST00000355349.4

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Congenital myopathy

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Distal myopathies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies and distal myopathies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    0.89
  • congenital myopathy 7A, myosin storage, autosomal dominant

    0.80
  • left ventricular noncompaction

    0.79
  • MYH7-related skeletal myopathy

    0.78
  • hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 1

    0.76
  • cardiomyopathy

    0.76
  • dilated cardiomyopathy

    0.72
  • familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy

    0.71
  • myopathy, myosin storage, autosomal recessive

    0.71
  • Laing early-onset distal myopathy

    0.71

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Myosin-7

Myosins are actin-based motor molecules with ATPase activity essential for muscle contraction. Forms regular bipolar thick filaments that, together with actin thin filaments, constitute the fundamental contractile unit of skeletal and cardiac muscle

Curated MONDO disease pages that list MYH7 among their top associated genes.

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.