IGFBP7

insulin like growth factor binding protein 7

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding protein (IGFBP) family. IGFBPs bind IGFs with high affinity, and regulate IGF availability in body fluids and tissues and modulate IGF binding to its receptors. This protein binds IGF-I and IGF-II with relatively low affinity, and belongs to a subfamily of low-affinity IGFBPs. It also stimulates prostacyclin production and cell adhesion. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene, and one variant has been associated with retinal arterial macroaneurysm (PMID:21835307). [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2011]

Known Variants30 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1404701354:57,897,491C/Tuncertain significance
rs8669948634:57,897,503C/Tpathogenic
rs7649426704:57,898,592C/Tpathogenic
rs24760506824:57,898,691C/Tuncertain significance
rs24760507204:57,898,698T/Glikely benign
rs115731274:57,898,728A/Gbenign
rs37559064:57,906,986A/Tbenign
rs358553284:57,907,014C/Tbenign
rs1458549264:57,907,088C/Guncertain significance
rs1145181304:57,913,253G/Aintron variant
rs100499924:57,939,863T/A
rs17188494:57,942,323T/Cdownstream gene variant
rs45089544:57,951,527C/A
rs68277684:57,952,002T/Aintron variant
rs111334824:57,973,879C/Tupstream gene variant
rs5480514574:57,976,087C/Tuncertain significance
rs3679493444:57,976,115C/Tbenign
rs3719331944:57,976,148C/Tuncertain significance
rs12436374444:57,976,204G/Cuncertain significance
rs13577947744:57,976,208C/Tuncertain significance
rs12252823154:57,976,263C/Tuncertain significance
rs24754258454:57,976,268C/Tuncertain significance
rs8665093534:57,976,285C/Tuncertain significance
rs7511108144:57,976,289C/Tuncertain significance
rs115552934:57,976,292C/Tuncertain significance
rs9429740104:57,976,351G/Auncertain significance
rs5701222474:57,976,417G/Tlikely benign
rs9879196124:57,976,435G/Auncertain significance
rs40753494:57,976,957C/A
rs115730144:57,977,241C/Gregulatory region variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.