LongevityMap Gene

Gene details

HGNC symbol
CARS 
Aliases
CARS1; CYSRS; MGC:11246 
Common name
cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase 
Description
This gene encodes a class 1 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase. Each of the twenty aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyzes the aminoacylation of a specific tRNA or tRNA isoaccepting family with the cognate amino acid. This gene is one of several located near the imprinted gene domain on chromosome 11p15.5, an important tumor-suppressor gene region. Alterations in this region have been associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Wilms tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, and lung, ovarian and breast cancers. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2010]
Cytogenetic Location
11p15.4
UCSC Genome Browser
View 11p15.4 on the UCSC genome browser
OMIM
123859
Ensembl
ENSG00000110619
UniProt/Swiss-Prot
A0A024RCG3_HUMAN
Entrez Gene
833
UniGene
274873
1000 Genomes
1000 Genomes

Homologs in model organisms

Caenorhabditis elegans
cars-1
Danio rerio
cars
Drosophila melanogaster
Aats-cys
Mus musculus
Cars
Rattus norvegicus
Cars
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
855474
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
SPAC29E6.06c

Studies (1)

Significant/Non-significant: 1/0

Longevity Association
Significant
Population
American (Caucasian)
Study Design
Genome-wide association study using 1,471 genotyped participants from the Framingham Heart Study, of which 1,173 individuals had known lifespans, plus 517 individuals from the Offspring cohort for validating connections between longevity and genetic variants
Conclusions
A total of 27 SNPs, including in CDH4, SVEP1, CACNA1C, CARS, STK24, C7orf50, PARVG, NCAM2, PPP2R2C, NLRC5, BTBD9, RAC2, TGFA, KIAA0649, ABCC4, CLSTN2, FAM19A5 and RUNX3, were identified at the intersection of various statistical procedures
Indentifier
rs739401
Reference