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Lipid and Alzheimer's disease genes associated with healthy aging and longevity in healthy oldest-old.
Oncotarget - 28 Mar 2017
Tindale Lauren C, Leach Stephen, Spinelli John J, Brooks-Wilson Angela R
Abstract excerpt
Several studies have found that long-lived individuals do not appear to carry lower numbers of common disease-associated variants than ordinary people; it has been hypothesized that they may instead carry protective variants. An intriguing type of protective variant is buffering variants that protect against variants that have deleterious effects. We genotyped 18 variants in 15 genes related to longevity or...
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