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Front Psychiatry
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Are Alzheimer's and coronary artery diseases genetically related to longevity?

Authors

Eftychia Bellou, Valentina Escott-Price

Abstract

In the last decade researchers have attempted to investigate the shared genetic architecture of longevity and age-related diseases and assess whether the increased longevity in certain people is due to protective alleles in the risk genes for a particular condition or whether there are specific "longevity" genes increasing the lifespan independently of age-related conditions' risk genes. The aim of this study was to investigate the shared genetic component between longevity and two age-related conditions.

PMID:36684006 | DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1102347

UK DRI Authors

Valentina Escott-Price

Prof Valentina Escott-Price

Group Leader

Using Big Data, machine learning and AI to accelerate discoveries into dementia

Prof Valentina Escott-Price