Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old.
Individuals who live to 85 and beyond without developing major age-related diseases may achieve this, in part, by lacking disease susceptibility factors, or by possessing resistance factors that enhance their ability to avoid disease and prolong lifespan. Healthy aging is a complex phenotype likely...
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| author | Julius Halaschek-Wiener Mahsa Amirabbasi-Beik Nasim Monfared Markus Pieczyk Christian Sailer Anita Kollar Ruth Thomas Georgios Agalaridis So Yamada Lisa Oliveira Jennifer A Collins Graydon Meneilly Marco A Marra Kenneth M Madden Nhu D Le Joseph M Connors Angela R Brooks-Wilson |
| author_facet | Julius Halaschek-Wiener Mahsa Amirabbasi-Beik Nasim Monfared Markus Pieczyk Christian Sailer Anita Kollar Ruth Thomas Georgios Agalaridis So Yamada Lisa Oliveira Jennifer A Collins Graydon Meneilly Marco A Marra Kenneth M Madden Nhu D Le Joseph M Connors Angela R Brooks-Wilson |
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| description | Individuals who live to 85 and beyond without developing major age-related diseases may achieve this, in part, by lacking disease susceptibility factors, or by possessing resistance factors that enhance their ability to avoid disease and prolong lifespan. Healthy aging is a complex phenotype likely to be affected by both genetic and environmental factors. We sequenced 24 candidate healthy aging genes in DNA samples from 47 healthy individuals aged eighty-five years or older (the 'oldest-old'), to characterize genetic variation that is present in this exceptional group. These healthy seniors were never diagnosed with cancer, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer disease. We re-sequenced all exons, intron-exon boundaries and selected conserved non-coding sequences of candidate genes involved in aging-related processes, including dietary restriction (PPARG, PPARGC1A, SIRT1, SIRT3, UCP2, UCP3), metabolism (IGF1R, APOB, SCD), autophagy (BECN1, FRAP1), stem cell activation (NOTCH1, DLL1), tumor suppression (TP53, CDKN2A, ING1), DNA methylation (TRDMT1, DNMT3A, DNMT3B) Progeria syndromes (LMNA, ZMPSTE24, KL) and stress response (CRYAB, HSPB2). We detected 935 variants, including 848 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 87 insertion or deletions; 41% (385) were not recorded in dbSNP. This study is the first to present a comprehensive analysis of genetic variation in aging-related candidate genes in healthy oldest-old. These variants and especially our novel polymorphisms are valuable resources to test for genetic association in models of disease susceptibility or resistance. In addition, we propose an innovative tagSNP selection strategy that combines variants identified through gene re-sequencing- and HapMap-derived SNPs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3e1d5c1bf214475dbaa7df49bd48330c2025-08-20T02:32:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032009-08-0148e664110.1371/journal.pone.0006641Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old.Julius Halaschek-WienerMahsa Amirabbasi-BeikNasim MonfaredMarkus PieczykChristian SailerAnita KollarRuth ThomasGeorgios AgalaridisSo YamadaLisa OliveiraJennifer A CollinsGraydon MeneillyMarco A MarraKenneth M MaddenNhu D LeJoseph M ConnorsAngela R Brooks-WilsonIndividuals who live to 85 and beyond without developing major age-related diseases may achieve this, in part, by lacking disease susceptibility factors, or by possessing resistance factors that enhance their ability to avoid disease and prolong lifespan. Healthy aging is a complex phenotype likely to be affected by both genetic and environmental factors. We sequenced 24 candidate healthy aging genes in DNA samples from 47 healthy individuals aged eighty-five years or older (the 'oldest-old'), to characterize genetic variation that is present in this exceptional group. These healthy seniors were never diagnosed with cancer, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer disease. We re-sequenced all exons, intron-exon boundaries and selected conserved non-coding sequences of candidate genes involved in aging-related processes, including dietary restriction (PPARG, PPARGC1A, SIRT1, SIRT3, UCP2, UCP3), metabolism (IGF1R, APOB, SCD), autophagy (BECN1, FRAP1), stem cell activation (NOTCH1, DLL1), tumor suppression (TP53, CDKN2A, ING1), DNA methylation (TRDMT1, DNMT3A, DNMT3B) Progeria syndromes (LMNA, ZMPSTE24, KL) and stress response (CRYAB, HSPB2). We detected 935 variants, including 848 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 87 insertion or deletions; 41% (385) were not recorded in dbSNP. This study is the first to present a comprehensive analysis of genetic variation in aging-related candidate genes in healthy oldest-old. These variants and especially our novel polymorphisms are valuable resources to test for genetic association in models of disease susceptibility or resistance. In addition, we propose an innovative tagSNP selection strategy that combines variants identified through gene re-sequencing- and HapMap-derived SNPs.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006641&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Julius Halaschek-Wiener Mahsa Amirabbasi-Beik Nasim Monfared Markus Pieczyk Christian Sailer Anita Kollar Ruth Thomas Georgios Agalaridis So Yamada Lisa Oliveira Jennifer A Collins Graydon Meneilly Marco A Marra Kenneth M Madden Nhu D Le Joseph M Connors Angela R Brooks-Wilson Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old. PLoS ONE |
| title | Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old. |
| title_full | Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old. |
| title_fullStr | Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old. |
| title_short | Genetic variation in healthy oldest-old. |
| title_sort | genetic variation in healthy oldest old |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006641&type=printable |
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