LongevityMap Gene

Gene details

HGNC symbol: SORCS1
Aliases: hSorCS
Common name: sortilin related VPS10 domain containing receptor 1
Description: This gene encodes one family member of vacuolar protein sorting 10 (VPS10) domain-containing receptor proteins. The VPS10 domain name comes from the yeast carboxypeptidase Y sorting receptor Vps10 protein. Members of this gene family are large with many exons but the CDS lengths are usually less than 3700 nt. Very large introns typically separate the exons encoding the VPS10 domain; the remaining exons are separated by much smaller-sized introns. These genes are strongly expressed in the central nervous system. Two of the five family members (sortilin and sortilin-related receptor) are synthesized as preproproteins; it is not yet known if this encoded protein is also a preproprotein. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Cytogenetic Location: 10q25.1
UCSC Genome Browser: View 10q25.1 on the UCSC genome browser
OMIM: 606283
Ensembl: ENSG00000108018
UniProt/Swiss-Prot: A8K182_HUMAN
Entrez Gene: 114815
UniGene: 591915
1000 Genomes: 1000 Genomes

GenAge model organism genes

Significant/Non-significant: 1/1

Longevity Association: Non-significant
Population: Italian
Study Design: Genome-wide association study on 410 long-living individuals (age range, 90–109 years) and 553 young control individuals (age range, 18–48 years) using 318,237 SNPs. An independent population with 116 long-lived individuals and 160 controls was used for replication purposes.
Conclusions: A total of 67 SNPs were identified with an indication of potentially being associated with longevity (p < 1 × 10−4), though 66 were not further validated
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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
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