LongevityMap variant

Entry Details

Longevity Association: Significant
Population: German
Study Design: Genome-wide association study comparing 664,472 autosomal SNPs in 763 long-lived individuals (mean age: 99.7 years) and 1085 controls (mean age: 60.2 years). Top SNPs from the GWAS were further investigated in an independent German sample comprised of 754 long-lived individuals (mean age: 96.9 years) and 860 controls (mean age: 67.3 years).
Conclusions: Only one SNP (rs4420638 near APOC1) was significantly associated with longevity after correcting for multiple hypothesis testing in the GWAS. This SNP was replicated in an independent German sample and can be explained by linkage disequilibrium with APOE allelic variants. rs2075650, also in LD with APOE alleles, was also associated with longevity.

HGNC symbol: APOC1
Aliases: Apo-CI; ApoC-I; apo-CIB; apoC-IB
Common name: apolipoprotein C1
Description: This gene encodes a member of the apolipoprotein C1 family. This gene is expressed primarily in the liver, and it is activated when monocytes differentiate into macrophages. The encoded protein plays a central role in high density lipoprotein (HDL) and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) metabolism. This protein has also been shown to inhibit cholesteryl ester transfer protein in plasma. A pseudogene of this gene is located 4 kb downstream in the same orientation, on the same chromosome. This gene is mapped to chromosome 19, where it resides within a apolipoprotein gene cluster. Alternative splicing and the use of alternative promoters results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2016]
Other longevity studies of this gene: 3
OMIM: 107710
Ensembl: ENSG00000130208
UniProt/Swiss-Prot: A0A024R0T8_HUMAN
Entrez Gene: 341
UniGene: 110675
HapMap: View on HapMap

CellAge gene expression

Nebel et al. (2011)