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LongevityMap variant

Entry Details

Longevity Association
Non-significant
Population
Danish
Study Design
38 genes (311 SNPs) belonging to pro-antioxidant pathways were investigated for the association with physical and cognitive performances in a Cohort of 1089 Danish nonagenarians. For each gene analyzed in the pro-antioxidant pathway, the influence on longitudinal survival was tested.
Conclusions
No gene found associated with a functional phenotype showed a corresponding association with survival in the whole cohort. NDUFS1, TXNRD1, SOD2 and UCP3 were found significantly associated with lifespan in the female cohort. No association with survival was reported in males for genes belonging to the pro-oxidant pathway here analyzed.
Identifier
rs1799983
In Other Studies (IDs)
1870
Cytogenetic Location
7q36.1
UCSC Genome Browser
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Gene details

HGNC symbol
NOS3
Aliases
eNOS; ECNOS 
Common name
nitric oxide synthase 3 
Description
Nitric oxide is a reactive free radical which acts as a biologic mediator in several processes, including neurotransmission and antimicrobial and antitumoral activities. Nitric oxide is synthesized from L-arginine by nitric oxide synthases. Variations in this gene are associated with susceptibility to coronary spasm. Alternative splicing and the use of alternative promoters results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2016]
Other longevity studies of this gene
13
OMIM
163729
Ensembl
ENSG00000164867
UniProt/Swiss-Prot
A0A0A0MTA6_HUMAN
Entrez Gene
4846
UniGene
647092
HapMap
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Homologs in model organisms

Drosophila melanogaster
Nos
Mus musculus
Nos3
Rattus norvegicus
Nos3
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
NCP1

In other databases

GenAge model organism genes
  • A homolog of this gene for Mus musculus is present as Nos3

References

Dato et al. (2014)

Other variants which are also part of this study