LongevityMap Gene
Gene details
- HGNC symbol
- OR6Y1
- Aliases
- OR6Y2; OR1-11
- Common name
- olfactory receptor family 6 subfamily Y member 1
- Description
- Olfactory receptors interact with odorant molecules in the nose, to initiate a neuronal response that triggers the perception of a smell. The olfactory receptor proteins are members of a large family of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) arising from single coding-exon genes. Olfactory receptors share a 7-transmembrane domain structure with many neurotransmitter and hormone receptors and are responsible for the recognition and G protein-mediated transduction of odorant signals. The olfactory receptor gene family is the largest in the genome. The nomenclature assigned to the olfactory receptor genes and proteins for this organism is independent of other organisms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
- Cytogenetic Location
- 1q23.1
- UCSC Genome Browser
- View 1q23.1 on the UCSC genome browser
- OMIM
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000197532
- UniProt/Swiss-Prot
- OR6Y1_HUMAN
- Entrez Gene
- 391112
- UniGene
- 553780
- 1000 Genomes
- 1000 Genomes
Homologs in model organisms
Studies (1)
Significant/Non-significant: 0/1
- Longevity Association
- Non-significant
- Population
- Caucasians
- Study Design
- Meta-analysis of GWAS in Caucasians from four prospective cohort studies: the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study, the Cardiovascular Health Study, the Framingham Heart Study, and the Rotterdam Study participating in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium. Longevity was defined as survival to age 90 years or older (n = 1,836); the comparison group comprised cohort members who died between the ages of 55 and 80 years (n = 1,955).
- Conclusions
- There were 273 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations with p < .0001, but none reached significance after correcting for multiple testing
- Indentifier
- rs9804152
- Reference