LongevityMap variant

Entry Details

Longevity Association
Non-significant
Population
Italian
Study Design
FokI RFLP polymorphism was examined in 219 centenarians (72 males and 147 females) and 256 (controls 20-70 years, 119 males and 137 females)
Conclusions
No significant difference between centenarians and controls was observed
Identifier
FokI RFLP
Cytogenetic Location
11p15.5
UCSC Genome Browser
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Gene details

HGNC symbol
INS
Aliases
IDDM; ILPR; IRDN; IDDM1; IDDM2; MODY10 
Common name
insulin 
Description
After removal of the precursor signal peptide, proinsulin is post-translationally cleaved into three peptides: the B chain and A chain peptides, which are covalently linked via two disulfide bonds to form insulin, and C-peptide. Binding of insulin to the insulin receptor (INSR) stimulates glucose uptake. A multitude of mutant alleles with phenotypic effects have been identified. There is a read-through gene, INS-IGF2, which overlaps with this gene at the 5' region and with the IGF2 gene at the 3' region. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2010]
Other longevity studies of this gene
5
OMIM
176730
Ensembl
ENSG00000254647
UniProt/Swiss-Prot
I3WAC9_HUMAN
Entrez Gene
3630
UniGene
272259
HapMap
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Homologs in model organisms

Danio rerio
ins
Danio rerio
insb
Mus musculus
Ins2
Mus musculus
Ins1
Rattus norvegicus
Ins1
Rattus norvegicus
Ins2

In other databases

GenAge human genes
  • This gene is present as INS

References

De Luca et al. (2001)

Other variants which are also part of this study