Genetics of Aging, Health, and Survival: Dynamic Regulation of Human Longevity Related Traits

Overview

Journal Front Genet

Date 2015 Apr 29

PMID 25918517

Citations 15

Authors

Anatoliy I Yashin

Deqing Wu

Liubov S Arbeeva

Konstantin G Arbeev

Alexander M Kulminski

Igor Akushevich

Mikhail Kovtun

Irina Culminskaya

Eric Stallard

Miaozhu Li

Svetlana V Ukraintseva

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Abstract

Background: The roles of genetic factors in human longevity would be better understood if one can use more efficient methods in genetic analyses and investigate pleiotropic effects of genetic variants on aging and health related traits.

Data And Methods: We used EMMAX software with modified correction for population stratification to perform genome wide association studies (GWAS) of female lifespan from the original FHS cohort. The male data from the original FHS cohort and male and female data combined from the offspring FHS cohort were used to confirm findings. We evaluated pleiotropic effects of selected genetic variants as well as gene-smoking interactions on health and aging related traits. Then we reviewed current knowledge on functional properties of genes related to detected variants.

Results: The eight SNPs with genome-wide significant variants were negatively associated with lifespan in both males and females. After additional QC, two of these variants were selected for further analyses of their associations with major diseases (cancer and CHD) and physiological aging changes. Gene-smoking interactions contributed to these effects. Genes closest to detected variants appear to be involved in similar biological processes and health disorders, as those found in other studies of aging and longevity e.g., in cancer and neurodegeneration.

Conclusions: The impact of genes on longevity may involve trade-off-like effects on different health traits. Genes that influence lifespan represent various molecular functions but may be involved in similar biological processes and health disorders, which could contribute to genetic heterogeneity of longevity and the lack of replication in genetic association studies.

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