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/T—uncertain significance
rs8669948634:57,897,503C/T—pathogenic
rs7649426704:57,898,592C/T—pathogenic
rs24760506824:57,898,691C/T—uncertain significance
rs24760507204:57,898,698T/G—likely benign
rs115731274:57,898,728A/G—benign
rs37559064:57,906,986A/T—benign
rs358553284:57,907,014C/T—benign
rs1458549264:57,907,088C/G—uncertain 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/T—uncertain significance
rs3679493444:57,976,115C/T—benign
rs3719331944:57,976,148C/T—uncertain significance
rs12436374444:57,976,204G/C—uncertain significance
rs13577947744:57,976,208C/T—uncertain significance
rs12252823154:57,976,263C/T—uncertain significance
rs24754258454:57,976,268C/T—uncertain significance
rs8665093534:57,976,285C/T—uncertain significance
rs7511108144:57,976,289C/T—uncertain significance
rs115552934:57,976,292C/T—uncertain significance
rs9429740104:57,976,351G/A—uncertain significance
rs5701222474:57,976,417G/T—likely benign
rs9879196124:57,976,435G/A—uncertain significance
rs40753494:57,976,957C/A——
rs115730144:57,977,241C/Gregulatory region variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.