Integrated genetic analyses revealed novel human longevity loci and reduced risks of multiple diseases in a cohort study of 15,651 Chinese individuals

X Liu, Z Song, Y Li, Y Yao, M Fang, C Bai, P An… - Aging …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… We performed genetic association analysis of 287 K imputed SNPs in dataset 1. More
specifically, after sample filtering, a total of 8,490 individuals (4,662 cases with an age ≥90 and …

Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing

PRHJ Timmers, JF Wilson, PK Joshi… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
… existing genome-wide association summary statistics for … suggest the genetic components
of both human lifespan (ie the … -analysis to identify genetic variants related to healthy ageing. …

The genetics of human ageing

D Melzer, LC Pilling, L Ferrucci - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
genetic component to the sum of genetic and other (termed ‘environmental’) factors, and is
specific to each studied … estimates for human longevity from twin studies range from 20% to 30…

Genome-wide association studies identify 137 genetic loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of aging

…, C Gieger, Genetics of DNA Methylation Consortium… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
genome-wide significant loci, of which 113 are novel, from genome-wide association study
(GWAS) meta-analyses … We find evidence for shared genetic loci associated with the Horvath …

A genomewide association study of the frailty index highlights brain pathways in ageing

JL Atkins, J Jylhävä, NL Pedersen, PK Magnusson… - Aging …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Understanding the genetic determinants and biological mechanisms … We performed a
genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis … 2.3 Candidate gene association analysis

Genetic parameters and genome-wide association studies of eight longevity traits representing either full or partial lifespan in Chinese Holsteins

H Zhang, A Liu, Y Wang, H Luo, X Yan, X Guo… - … in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… the fact that longevity is genetically related to health, fertility and … genes for longevity detected
in the present study, 63 genes had … kept for association analysis on each longevity trait in …

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of semi-supercentenarians

P Garagnani, J Marquis, M Delledonne, C Pirazzini… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
… In the study of the genetics of human longevity, there are to … of extreme longevity as a paradigm
of healthy aging. A … (A) Manhattan plot for all the SNPs tested for the association analysis

Common genetic associations between age-related diseases

HM Dönertaş, DK Fabian, M Fuentealba, L Partridge… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
… and aging, we analyzed age-related expression and methylation profiles of genes associated
with SNPs identified in our study (… Using tissue-specific eQTL-gene associations, we first …

Human geroprotector discovery by targeting the converging subnetworks of aging and age-related diseases

J Yang, S Peng, B Zhang, S Houten, E Schadt, J Zhu… - Geroscience, 2020 - Springer
… on a large human genomic dataset generated by the Gene-Tissue … survey of tissue-specific
aging mechanisms and we showed that it could recapitulate multiple well-established aging

Meta‐analysis of genomewide DNA methylation and integrative omics of age in human skeletal muscle

S Voisin, M Jacques, S Landen… - Journal of Cachexia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… While human lifespan (ie the number of years alive) has increased by ~3.5 years per … of
years spent in good health) has not increased to the same extent. In 2015, people lived 5 years …