Joint influence of small-effect genetic variants on human longevity.

Authors: Yashin AI; Wu D; Arbeev KG; Ukraintseva SV

Abstract: The results of genome-wide association studies of complex traits, such as life span or age at onset of chronic disease, suggest that such traits are typically affected by a large number of small-effect alleles. Individually such alleles have little predictive values, therefore they were usually excluded from further analyses. The results of our study strongly suggest that the alleles with small individual effects on longevity may jointly influence life span so that the resulting influence can be both substantial and significant. We show that this joint influence can be described by a relatively simple "genetic dose - phenotypic response" relationship.

Keywords: Aging/genetics/*physiology; Alleles; Genetic Variation/genetics/*physiology; Genome, Human/genetics/physiology; Humans; Longevity/genetics/*physiology; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics/physiology
Journal: Aging
Volume: 2
Issue: 9
Pages: 612-20
Date: Sept. 14, 2010
PMID: 20834067
Select reference article to upload


Citation:

Yashin AI, Wu D, Arbeev KG, Ukraintseva SV (2010) Joint influence of small-effect genetic variants on human longevity. Aging 2: 612-20.


Longevity Variant Associations (p-value):
  • -

  • Update (Admin) | Auto-Update

    Comment on This Data Unit