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  • Titel: Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity
  • Beteiligte: Joshi, Peter K.; Pirastu, Nicola; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Fischer, Krista; Hofer, Edith; Schraut, Katharina E.; Clark, David W.; Nutile, Teresa; Barnes, Catriona L. K.; Timmers, Paul R. H. J.; Shen, Xia; Gandin, Ilaria; McDaid, Aaron F.; Hansen, Thomas Folkmann; Gordon, Scott D.; Giulianini, Franco; Boutin, Thibaud S.; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Zhao, Wei; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Bartz, Traci M.; Trompet, Stella; Lange, Leslie A.; Raffield, Laura; [...]
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017
  • Erschienen in: Nature Communications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00934-5
  • ISSN: 2041-1723
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Genomic analysis of longevity offers the potential to illuminate the biology of human aging. Here, using genome-wide association meta-analysis of 606,059 parents’ survival, we discover two regions associated with longevity (<jats:italic>HLA-DQA1/DRB1</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>LPA</jats:italic>). We also validate previous suggestions that <jats:italic>APOE</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>CHRNA3/5</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>CDKN2A/B</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>SH2B3</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>FOXO3A</jats:italic> influence longevity. Next we show that giving up smoking, educational attainment, openness to new experience and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels are most positively genetically correlated with lifespan while susceptibility to coronary artery disease (CAD), cigarettes smoked per day, lung cancer, insulin resistance and body fat are most negatively correlated. We suggest that the effect of education on lifespan is principally mediated through smoking while the effect of obesity appears to act via CAD. Using instrumental variables, we suggest that an increase of one body mass index unit reduces lifespan by 7 months while 1 year of education adds 11 months to expected lifespan.</jats:p>
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