LongevityMap variant

Entry Details

Longevity Association
Non-significant
Population
Bulgarian
Study Design
12 alleles were examined in 17 unrelated elderly (age 65-90 years; 6 males and 11 females), 23 family members (age 18-57 years; 9 males and 14 females), and a control group with 105 randomly selected, matched for geographical distribution healthy controls aged 25-53 years (40 male and 65 female)
Conclusions
The most frequent HLA alleles in elderly Bulgarians were A01 and A02. A number of haplotypes were also found to be more frequent in elderly Bulgarians compared to the controls, though this was not statistically significant after correcting for multiple testing.
Identifier
HLA-A
In Other Studies (IDs)
114
Cytogenetic Location
6p22.1
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Gene details

HGNC symbol
HLA-A
Aliases
HLAA 
Common name
major histocompatibility complex, class I, A 
Description
HLA-A belongs to the HLA class I heavy chain paralogues. This class I molecule is a heterodimer consisting of a heavy chain and a light chain (beta-2 microglobulin). The heavy chain is anchored in the membrane. Class I molecules play a central role in the immune system by presenting peptides derived from the endoplasmic reticulum lumen. They are expressed in nearly all cells. The heavy chain is approximately 45 kDa and its gene contains 8 exons. Exon 1 encodes the leader peptide, exons 2 and 3 encode the alpha1 and alpha2 domains, which both bind the peptide, exon 4 encodes the alpha3 domain, exon 5 encodes the transmembrane region, and exons 6 and 7 encode the cytoplasmic tail. Polymorphisms within exon 2 and exon 3 are responsible for the peptide binding specificity of each class one molecule. Typing for these polymorphisms is routinely done for bone marrow and kidney transplantation. Hundreds of HLA-A alleles have been described. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Other longevity studies of this gene
1
OMIM
142800
Ensembl
ENSG00000206503
UniProt/Swiss-Prot
1A01_HUMAN
Entrez Gene
3105
UniGene
181244
HapMap
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Homologs in model organisms

Rattus norvegicus
RT1-T24-4
Rattus norvegicus
RT1-T24-3
Rattus norvegicus
RT1-T24-2
Rattus norvegicus
RT1-T24-1

References

Naumova et al. (2004)

Other variants which are also part of this study