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insulin degrading enzyme

Summary

This gene encodes a zinc metallopeptidase that degrades intracellular insulin, and thereby terminates insulins activity, as well as participating in intercellular peptide signalling by degrading diverse peptides such as glucagon, amylin, bradykinin, and kallidin. The preferential affinity of this enzyme for insulin results in insulin-mediated inhibition of the degradation of other peptides such as beta-amyloid. Deficiencies in this protein's function are associated with Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus but mutations in this gene have not been shown to be causitive for these diseases. This protein localizes primarily to the cytoplasm but in some cell types localizes to the extracellular space, cell membrane, peroxisome, and mitochondrion. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. Additional transcript variants have been described but have not been experimentally verified.[provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009]

Known Variants71 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs225110110:94,211,304C/Tdownstream gene variant
rs464695810:94,214,359T/Aintron variant
rs1118700710:94,214,580A/C
rs20134966810:94,215,365T/Clikely benign
rs145217780110:94,216,122C/Auncertain significance
rs37555999910:94,216,146C/Tuncertain significance
rs378123910:94,217,797C/Gintron variant
rs77108980010:94,220,992A/Guncertain significance
rs55126610:94,222,624C/Tintron variant
rs76050748810:94,223,515T/Cuncertain significance
rs76873754810:94,223,531T/Guncertain significance
rs6173644310:94,223,726A/Gbenign
rs188792210:94,224,165C/Tregulatory region variant
rs789960310:94,225,017G/Cintron variant
rs3564061110:94,225,548G/Tbenign
rs76692889910:94,225,568C/Tuncertain significance
rs101958264910:94,228,696G/Auncertain significance
rs11428526910:94,228,731A/Guncertain significance
rs148175085910:94,228,738C/Guncertain significance
rs464695710:94,229,912C/Tintron variant
rs249453456910:94,230,070G/Auncertain significance
rs78081451810:94,230,078G/Cuncertain significance
rs214963210:94,232,247T/A
rs77561003210:94,235,675A/Guncertain significance
rs140953051510:94,235,732T/Cuncertain significance
rs37433832910:94,239,089G/Auncertain significance
rs249461041010:94,239,110G/Auncertain significance
rs184673196510:94,243,044C/Auncertain significance
rs184704984410:94,246,957A/Guncertain significance
rs37593625910:94,246,978G/Auncertain significance
rs658381710:94,247,247C/Tintron variant
rs14762829810:94,250,252T/Cuncertain significance
rs184727835110:94,250,263T/Auncertain significance
rs249471375610:94,250,327C/Tuncertain significance
rs14959649110:94,250,333A/Cuncertain significance
rs11461149610:94,259,439A/Gintron variant
rs1118703310:94,262,359T/G
rs75246334710:94,264,576C/Tuncertain significance
rs74748166010:94,264,600G/Auncertain significance
rs14191519410:94,264,627C/Tuncertain significance
rs77083114510:94,264,629G/Auncertain significance
rs37261559810:94,264,653T/Cuncertain significance
rs77091913410:94,266,239C/Tuncertain significance
rs76482607110:94,267,409T/Cuncertain significance
rs184839338210:94,267,882C/Tuncertain significance
rs183219610:94,268,334G/T
rs57254353810:94,268,574T/Cuncertain significance
rs139086112310:94,268,599T/Auncertain significance
rs75683260510:94,269,820T/Cuncertain significance
rs74847193010:94,269,854G/Cuncertain significance
rs76768848310:94,269,879A/Cuncertain significance
rs93085101110:94,269,893C/Auncertain significance
rs77198609410:94,274,729G/Tuncertain significance
rs36782377510:94,274,738T/Clikely benign
rs789583210:94,276,526A/G
rs14522271610:94,278,685G/Aintron variant
rs707841310:94,290,484A/G
rs129705135010:94,291,544T/Cuncertain significance
rs121772508110:94,291,642T/Cuncertain significance
rs123143955210:94,294,402T/Cuncertain significance
rs77698041510:94,297,189T/Auncertain significance
rs1118706110:94,305,409T/Cintron variant
rs1710773410:94,305,417C/Tintron variant
rs1118706510:94,311,924T/G
rs199976410:94,320,139T/Cintron variant
rs249565053610:94,333,707G/Auncertain significance
rs118361895210:94,333,745G/Auncertain significance
rs55448164310:94,333,747G/Alikely benign
rs464695410:94,333,827G/Aregulatory region variant
rs464695310:94,333,955A/Gregulatory region variant
rs375850510:94,334,778A/Cregulatory region variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.