LongevityMap variant group

Entry Details

Longevity Association
Non-significant
Population
Italian (Sicily)
Study Design
Three FMF-associated mutations were examined in 121 acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients (20-46 years, 10 female), in 68 centenarians (>99 years, 38 female), and in 196 age-matched controls (20-50 years, 117 female)
Conclusions
The only detected mutation M694V (A2080G) was less frequent in centenarians. The heterozygous genotype was also significantly overexpressed in AMI patients and underexpressed in centenarians compared with young controls. Although the frequency of M694V proinflammatory genotype and allele in centenarians was lower this was not statistically significant. After adjustment for AMI risk factors, the results predicted M694V genotype was an independent risk factor to develop AMI. Conversely, the wild-type pyrin genotype may predispose to a greater chance to live longer under some conditions.

Variants (3)

1.
Identifier
rs28940577
Cytogenetic Location
16p13.3
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2.
Identifier
rs28940578
Cytogenetic Location
16p13.3
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3.
Identifier
rs28940479
Cytogenetic Location
16p13.3
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Gene details

HGNC symbol
MEFV
Aliases
FMF; MEF; TRIM20 
Common name
MEFV, pyrin innate immunity regulator 
Description
This gene encodes a protein, also known as pyrin or marenostrin, that is an important modulator of innate immunity. Mutations in this gene are associated with Mediterranean fever, a hereditary periodic fever syndrome. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Other longevity studies of this gene
3
OMIM
608107
Ensembl
ENSG00000103313
UniProt/Swiss-Prot
D2DTW2_HUMAN
Entrez Gene
4210
UniGene
632221
HapMap
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Homologs in model organisms

Mus musculus
Mefv
Rattus norvegicus
Mefv

References

Grimaldi et al. (2006)

Other variants which are also part of this study