Journal
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
Volume 70, Issue 1, Pages 110-118Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glu166
Keywords
Longevity; GWAS; FOXO3; APOE
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Funding
- Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO Investments [175.010.2005.011, 911-03-012]
- Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly [014-93-015, RIDE2]
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)/Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [050-060-810]
- Erasmus Medical Center
- Erasmus University, Rotterdam
- Netherlands Organization for the Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
- Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE)
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
- Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports
- European Commission (DG XII)
- Municipality of Rotterdam
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (NIA) [R01 AG005407, R01 AR35582, R01 AR35583, R01 AR35584, R01 AG005394, R01 AG027574, R01 AG027576, AG023629, R01AG29451, U01AG009740, RC2 AG036495, RC4 AG039029, P30AG10161, R01AG17917, R01AG15819, R01AG30146, U01-AG023755, U19-AG023122]
- NHLBI [HHSN 268201200036C, HHSN268200800007C, N01HC55222, N01HC85079, N01HC85080, N01HC85081, N01HC85082, N01HC85083, N01HC 85086, HL080295, HL087652, HL105756]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, CTSI [UL1TR000124]
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease Diabetes Research Center (DRC) [DK063491]
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
- NIH Roadmap for Medical Research [U01 AR45580, U01 AR45614, U01 AR45632, U01 AR45647, U01 AR45654, U01 AR45583, U01 AG18197, U01-AG027810, UL1 RR024140]
- NIAMS [R01-AR051124, RC2ARO58973]
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study [N01-HC-25195]
- Affymetrix, Inc [N02-HL-6-4278]
- Robert Dawson Evans Endowment of the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine
- Boston Medical Center
- National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- NIA [R01 AR/AG 41398]
- NIH [N01-AG-12100]
- NIA Intramural Research Program
- Hjartavernd (the Icelandic Heart Association)
- Althingi (the Icelandic Parliament)
- Illinois Department of Public Health
- Translational Genomics Research Institute
- Italian Ministry of Health [ICS110.1/RF97.71]
- U.S. National Institute on Aging [263 MD 9164, 263 MD 821336]
- Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute on Aging
- [1R01AG028321]
- [1R01HL092577]
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Background. The genetic contribution to longevity in humans has been estimated to range from 15% to 25%. Only two genes, APOE and FOXO3, have shown association with longevity in multiple independent studies. Methods. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies including 6,036 longevity cases, age >= 90 years, and 3,757 controls that died between ages 55 and 80 years. We additionally attempted to replicate earlier identified single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations with longevity. Results. In our meta-analysis, we found suggestive evidence for the association of SNPs near CADM2 (odds ratio [OR] = 0.81; p value = 9.66 x 10(-7)) and GRIK2 (odds ratio = 1.24; p value = 5.09 x 10(-8)) with longevity. When attempting to replicate findings earlier identified in genome-wide association studies, only the APOE locus consistently replicated. In an additional look-up of the candidate gene FOXO3, we found that an earlier identified variant shows a highly significant association with longevity when including published data with our meta-analysis (odds ratio = 1.17; p value = 1.85 x 10(-10)). Conclusions. We did not identify new genome-wide significant associations with longevity and did not replicate earlier findings except for APOE and FOXO3. Our inability to find new associations with survival to ages >= 90 years because longevity represents multiple complex traits with heterogeneous genetic underpinnings, or alternatively, that longevity may be regulated by rare variants that are not captured by standard genome-wide genotyping and imputation of common variants.
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