Genetic factors and epigenetic mechanisms of longevity: Current perspectives

Epigenomics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1339-1349

  Lazarus, Jessica ^a,b   Mather, Karen A ^b   Thalamuthu, Anbupalam ^b   Kwok, John Bj ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; DNA methylation; epigenetic; genome wide association studies; histone modification; longevity; neurodegenerative disease

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HISTONE;

AGE; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEACETYLATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; PROGNOSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTONES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84950297325     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.15.80     Document Type: Review

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