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Polygenic effects of common single-nucleotide polymorphisms on life span: when association meets causality.
Rejuvenation research - 1 Aug 2012
Yashin Anatoliy I, Wu Deqing, Arbeev Konstantin G, Ukraintseva Svetlana V
Abstract excerpt
Recently we have shown that the human life span is influenced jointly by many common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), each with a small individual effect. Here we investigate further the polygenic influence on life span and discuss its possible biological mechanisms. First we identified six sets of prolongevity SNP alleles in the Framingham Heart Study 550K SNPs data, using six different statistical...
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