LongevityMap Gene
Gene details
- HGNC symbol
- C2
- Aliases
- CO2; ARMD14
- Common name
- complement C2
- Description
- Component C2 is a serum glycoprotein that functions as part of the classical pathway of the complement system. Activated C1 cleaves C2 into C2a and C2b. The serine proteinase C2a then combines with complement factor 4b to create the C3 or C5 convertase. Deficiency of C2 has been reported to associated with certain autoimmune diseases and SNPs in this gene have been associated with altered susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration. This gene localizes within the class III region of the MHC on the short arm of chromosome 6. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. Additional transcript variants have been described in publications but their full-length sequence has not been determined.[provided by RefSeq, Mar 2009]
- Cytogenetic Location
- 6p21.33
- UCSC Genome Browser
- View 6p21.33 on the UCSC genome browser
- OMIM
- 613927
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000166278
- UniProt/Swiss-Prot
- A0A0G2JL69_HUMAN
- Entrez Gene
- 717
- UniGene
- 408903
- 1000 Genomes
- 1000 Genomes
Homologs in model organisms
In other databases
- GenAge microarray genes
- This gene is present as C2
Studies (1)
Significant/Non-significant: 1/0
- Longevity Association
- Significant
- Population
- American (Caucasian)
- Study Design
- Genome-wide association study in 801 centenarians and 914 healthy controls
- Conclusions
- 281 SNPs were found to discriminate between cases and controls
- Indentifier
- rs1042663
- Reference