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Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Nov 2016
Marioni Riccardo E, Ritchie Stuart J, Joshi Peter K, Hagenaars Saskia P, Okbay Aysu, Fischer Krista, Adams Mark J, Hill W David, Davies Gail, Nagy Reka, Amador Carmen, Läll Kristi, Metspalu Andres, Liewald David C, Campbell Archie, Wilson James F, Hayward Caroline, Esko Tõnu, Porteous David J, Gale Catharine R, Deary Ian J
Abstract excerpt
Educational attainment is associated with many health outcomes, including longevity. It is also known to be substantially heritable. Here, we used data from three large genetic epidemiology cohort studies (Generation Scotland, n = ∼17,000; UK Biobank, n = ∼115,000; and the Estonian Biobank, n = ∼6,000) to test whether education-linked genetic variants can predict lifespan length. We did so by using cohort...
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