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SUBMITTER: Park JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2788731 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Ji Wan JW Ji Yong Ick YI Choi Yoon Ho YH Kang Mi Yeon MY Jung Eunhyun E Cho Se Young SY Cho Hee-Youn HY Kang Byung Kyu BK Joung Yoo Sook YS Kim Duk-Hwan DH Park Sang Chul SC Park Joobae J
Experimental & molecular medicine 20091101 11
Long-lived people may have a unique genetic makeup that makes them more resistant than the general population to prevalent age-related diseases; however, not much is known about genes involved in the longevity. To identify susceptibility variants controlling longevity, we performed a high-throughput candidate gene study using 137 Koreans over 90 yr old and 213 young healthy Koreans. We evaluated 463 informative markers located in 176 candidate genes mostly for diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular d ...[more]