DESCRIPTION:

List of positional candidate genes after correcting for multiple testing and controlling the false discovery rate from genome wide association studies (GWAS) retrieved from the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The disease/trait examined in this study, as reported by the authors, was Parental longevity (combined parental age at death). The EFO term parental longevity was annotated to this set after curation by NHGRI-EBI. Intergenic SNPS were mapped to both the upstream and downstream gene. P-value uploaded. This gene set was generated using gwas2gs v. 0.1.8 and the GWAS Catalog v. 1.0.1.

LABEL:

GWAS: parental longevity

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

THRESHOLD:

<= 0.05

GENES IN THRESHOLD:

167

DATE ADDED:

2017-05-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-10-22

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

LC Pilling, JL Atkins, K Bowman, SE Jones, J Tyrrell, RN Beaumont, KS Ruth, MA Tuke, H Yaghootkar, AR Wood, RM Freathy, A Murray, MN Weedon, L Xue, K Lunetta, JM Murabito, LW Harries, JM Robine, C Brayne, GA Kuchel, L Ferrucci, TM Frayling, D Melzer

TITLE:

Human longevity is influenced by many genetic variants: evidence from 75,000 UK Biobank participants.

JOURNAL:

Aging Mar 2016, Vol 8, pp. 547-60

ABSTRACT:

Variation in human lifespan is 20 to 30% heritable in twins but few genetic variants have been identified. We undertook a Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) using age at death of parents of middle-aged UK Biobank participants of European decent (n=75,244 with father's and/or mother's data, excluding early deaths). Genetic risk scores for 19 phenotypes (n=777 proven variants) were also tested. In GWAS, a nicotine receptor locus(CHRNA3, previously associated with increased smoking and lung cancer) was associated with fathers' survival. Less common variants requiring further confirmation were also identified. Offspring of longer lived parents had more protective alleles for coronary artery disease, systolic blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, type-1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and Alzheimer's disease. In candidate analyses, variants in the TOMM40/APOE locus were associated with longevity, but FOXO variants were not. Associations between extreme longevity (mother >=98 years, fathers >=95 years, n=1,339) and disease alleles were similar, with an additional association with HDL cholesterol (p=5.7x10-3). These results support a multiple protective factors model influencing lifespan and longevity (top 1% survival) in humans, with prominent roles for cardiovascular-related pathways. Several of these genetically influenced risks, including blood pressure and tobacco exposure, are potentially modifiable. PUBMED: 27015805
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