LongevityMap variant
Entry Details
- Longevity Association
- Non-significant
- Population
- European
- Study Design
- The chromosomal region 11p.15.5 was investigated in 1321 centenarians and 1140 younger subjects from European samples
- Conclusions
- No significant results were observed for genes previously associated with longevity: TH, IGF2, INS and HRAS1
- Identifier
- IGF2
- In Other Studies (IDs)
- 73 883
- Cytogenetic Location
- 11p15.5
- UCSC Genome Browser
- View 11p15.5 on the UCSC genome browser
Gene details
- HGNC symbol
- IGF2
- Aliases
- GRDF; IGF-II; PP9974; C11orf43
- Common name
- insulin like growth factor 2
- Description
- This gene encodes a member of the insulin family of polypeptide growth factors, which are involved in development and growth. It is an imprinted gene, expressed only from the paternal allele, and epigenetic changes at this locus are associated with Wilms tumour, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, rhabdomyosarcoma, and Silver-Russell syndrome. A read-through INS-IGF2 gene exists, whose 5' region overlaps the INS gene and the 3' region overlaps this gene. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2010]
- Other longevity studies of this gene
- 6
- OMIM
- 147470
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000167244
- UniProt/Swiss-Prot
- E3UN46_HUMAN
- Entrez Gene
- 3481
- UniGene
- 272259
- HapMap
- View on HapMap
Homologs in model organisms
In other databases
- GenAge human genes
- This gene is present as IGF2