LongevityMap variant

Entry Details

Longevity Association
Non-significant
Population
German
Study Design
Deletion was examined in 205 octogenarians and a reference group of 294 persons aged less than 80 years
Conclusions
Octogenarians had slightly less GSTT1 deficient genotypes
Identifier
GSTT1
In Other Studies (IDs)
50 212 429
Cytogenetic Location
22q11.23
UCSC Genome Browser
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Gene details

HGNC symbol
GSTT1
Aliases
 
Common name
glutathione S-transferase theta 1 
Description
The protein encoded by this gene, glutathione S-transferase (GST) theta 1 (GSTT1), is a member of a superfamily of proteins that catalyze the conjugation of reduced glutathione to a variety of electrophilic and hydrophobic compounds. Human GSTs can be divided into five main classes: alpha, mu, pi, theta, and zeta. The theta class includes GSTT1, GSTT2, and GSTT2B. GSTT1 and GSTT2/GSTT2B share 55% amino acid sequence identity and may play a role in human carcinogenesis. The GSTT1 gene is haplotype-specific and is absent from 38% of the population. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2015]
Other longevity studies of this gene
3
OMIM
600436
Ensembl
UniProt/Swiss-Prot
A0A0G2JRN4_HUMAN
Entrez Gene
2952
UniGene
268573
HapMap
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Homologs in model organisms

No homologs found

References

Pesch et al. (2004)

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