Abstract

Human longevity is heritable, but genome-wide association (GWA) studies have had limited success. Here, we perform two meta-analyses of GWA studies of a rigorous longevity phenotype definition including 11,262/3484 cases surviving at or beyond the age corresponding to the 90th/99th survival percentile, respectively, and 25,483 controls whose age at death or at last contact was at or below the age corresponding to the 60th survival percentile. Consistent with previous reports, rs429358 (apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4) is associated with lower odds of surviving to the 90th and 99th percentile age, while rs7412 (ApoE ε2) shows the opposite. Moreover, rs7676745, located near GPR78, associates with lower odds of surviving to the 90th percentile age. Gene-level association analysis reveals a role for tissue-specific expression of multiple genes in longevity. Finally, genetic correlation of the longevity GWA results with that of several disease-related phenotypes points to a shared genetic architecture between health and longevity.

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A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes
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Deelen, Joris 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Evans, Daniel S 2 ; Arking, Dan E 3 ; Tesi, Niccolò 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Nygaard, Marianne 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Liu, Xiaomin 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Wojczynski, Mary K 7 ; Biggs, Mary L 8 ; van der Spek, Ashley 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Atzmon, Gil 10 ; Ware, Erin B 11   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sarnowski, Chloé 12 ; Smith, Albert V 13 ; Seppälä, Ilkka 14   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Cordell, Heather J 15   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dose, Janina 16 ; Amin, Najaf 9 ; Arnold, Alice M 17 ; Ayers, Kristin L 18 ; Barzilai, Nir 19 ; Becker, Elizabeth J 20 ; Beekman, Marian 21   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Blanché, Hélène 22   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Christensen, Kaare 23   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Christiansen, Lene 24 ; Collerton, Joanna C 25 ; Cubaynes, Sarah 26 ; Cummings, Steven R 2 ; Davies, Karen 27 ; Debrabant, Birgit 28 ; Deleuze, Jean-François 29 ; Duncan, Rachel 30 ; Faul, Jessica D 11 ; Franceschi, Claudio 31 ; Galan, Pilar 32   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gudnason, Vilmundur 33   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Harris, Tamara B 34 ; Huisman, Martijn 35 ; Hurme, Mikko A 36 ; Jagger, Carol 30   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jansen, Iris 37 ; Jylhä, Marja 38 ; Kähönen, Mika 39 ; Karasik, David 40   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kardia, Sharon L R 41 ; Kingston, Andrew 30 ; Kirkwood, Thomas B L 42 ; Launer, Lenore J 34 ; Lehtimäki, Terho 14 ; Lieb, Wolfgang 43 ; Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen 14 ; Martin-Ruiz, Carmen 27   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Min, Junxia 44 ; Nebel, Almut 16 ; Newman, Anne B 45   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Nie, Chao 46 ; Nohr, Ellen A 47 ; Orwoll, Eric S 48   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Perls, Thomas T 49 ; Province, Michael A 7 ; Psaty, Bruce M 50 ; Raitakari, Olli T 51 ; Reinders, Marcel J T 52   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Robine, Jean-Marie 53   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rotter, Jerome I 54   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sebastiani, Paola 12 ; Smith, Jennifer 55   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sørensen, Thorkild I A 56   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Taylor, Kent D 57   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Uitterlinden, André G 58   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Wiesje van der Flier 59 ; Sven J van der Lee 60   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; van Duijn, Cornelia M 61 ; Diana van Heemst 62 ; Vaupel, James W 63 ; Weir, David 11   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ye, Kenny 64   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zeng, Yi 65 ; Zheng, Wanlin 2 ; Henne Holstege 4 ; Kiel, Douglas P 66   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lunetta, Kathryn L 12   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; P Eline Slagboom 21 ; Murabito, Joanne M 67 

 Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany; Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 
 California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA 
 McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 
 Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 
 The Danish Aging Research Center, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark 
 BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China; China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China 
 Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA 
 Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 
 Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
10  Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA 
11  Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 
12  Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 
13  School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Icelandic Heart Association, Kópavogur, Iceland 
14  Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland 
15  Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
16  Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany 
17  Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 
18  Sema4, a Mount Sinai venture, Stamford, CT, USA 
19  Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA 
20  Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA 
21  Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 
22  Fondation Jean Dausset—CEPH, Paris, France 
23  The Danish Aging Research Center, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark; Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, Odense C, Denmark; Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense C, Denmark 
24  The Danish Aging Research Center, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark; Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 
25  Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
26  MMDN, Univ. Montpellier, EPHE, Unité Inserm 1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France 
27  Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
28  Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark 
29  Fondation Jean Dausset—CEPH, Paris, France; Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, CEA-Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Evry, France 
30  Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
31  Department of Applied Mathematics and Centre of Bioinformatics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna (ISNB), Bologna, Italy 
32  EREN, UMR U1153 Inserm/U1125 Inra/Cnam/Paris 13, Université Paris 13, CRESS, Bobigny, France 
33  Icelandic Heart Association, Kópavogur, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland 
34  Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA 
35  Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
36  Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland 
37  Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
38  Faculty of Social Sciences (Health Sciences) and Gerontology Research Center (GEREC), Tampere University, Tampere, Finland 
39  Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland 
40  Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel; Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, USA 
41  School of Public Health, Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 
42  Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
43  Institute of Epidemiology and Biobank PopGen, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany 
44  Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 
45  Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
46  BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China 
47  Research Unit of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark 
48  Bone and Mineral Unit, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA 
49  Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Section, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA 
50  Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA 
51  Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland 
52  Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 
53  MMDN, Univ. Montpellier, EPHE, Unité Inserm 1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France; CERMES3, UMR CNRS 8211—Unité Inserm 988—EHESS—Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France 
54  Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA; Division of Genetic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA 
55  Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; School of Public Health, Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 
56  Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, and Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol University, Bristol, UK 
57  Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA 
58  Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
59  Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
60  Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
61  Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
62  Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 
63  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany 
64  Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA 
65  Center for Healthy Aging and Development Studies, National School of Development and Raissun Institute for Advanced Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China; Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development and Geriatrics Division, Medical School of Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 
66  Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA 
67  NHLBI’s and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA 
Pages
1-14
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Aug 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
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2273185243
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