There was an excess burden of splice-disrupting variants in PKP2 (5.9%), FLNC (2.7%), TTN (2.8%), MYBPC3 (8.2%) and MYH7 (1.3%), in distinct cardiomyopathy subtypes, and KCNQ1 (3.6%) in long QT syndrome. Here, PKP2 is linked to cardiomyopathy.