Human aging in the post-GWAS era: further insights reveal potential regulatory variants

Biogerontology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 529-541

  Haider, Syed Aleem ^a   Faisal, Muhammad ^b,c  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BRADFORD INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging and longevity; Epigenetics; Human genetics; Regulatory variants

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BIOINFORMATICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; DATA BASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOREG; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULOMEDB; REGULOMEDB SCORES; RSNPBASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84933676240     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-015-9575-y     Document Type: Article

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