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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00934-5
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- UK Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F022441/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Lundbeck Foundation [R155-2014-1724] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_PC_14126, MR/K026992/1, MR/N005813/1, 1359901, 1805065, G0100594, G0901461, MC_qA137853, MC_PC_U127561128, MC_UU_12019/1, 1811434, MR/K002279/1, G0600237, G0900753, 1805084] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/F022441/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [1805065, 1811434, MR/N005813/1, MC_UU_12019/1, MC_PC_U127561128, MR/K002279/1, 1805084, G0600237, G0100594, G0900753, G0901461, MC_PC_14126] Funding Source: UKRI
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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 (HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA). We also validate previous suggestions that APOE, CHRNA3/5, CDKN2A/B, SH2B3 and FOXO3A 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.
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