The quest for genetic determinants of human longevity: challenges and insights
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...The study of longevity may be affected by small genetic effect sizes, population stratification artifact, population heterogeneity, lack of sufficient numbers of long-lived study participants, and other problems (3, 4, 41)....
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...Few replications have been observed across populations, with the exception of the APOE gene (3)....
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...There are many biologically plausible candidate genes for human longevity but only one finding has so far been widely replicated in multiple populations, that of the APOE gene (3)....
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...Although numerous case-control candidate studies have been performed and associations of the longevity phenotype with biologically plausible genes have been described, results from these experiments have proven difficult to validate (5)....
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...However, this requirement may sometimes be difficult to achieve when polygenic traits, such as human longevity, are analyzed for which only modest or weak effects are predicted (5)....
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...The selection of appropriate controls for genetic longevity research is a matter of concern (5, 14)....
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...Human longevity and healthy aging are complex phenotypes influenced by environmental (diet, physical activity, health habits, and psychosocial factors) and genetic factors (Herskind et al., 1996; Christensen et al., 2006; Bishop & Guarente, 2007)....
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