TY - JOUR
T1 - Longevity candidate genes and their association with personality traits in the elderly
AU - Luciano, Michelle
AU - Lopez, Lorna M
AU - de Moor, Marleen H M
AU - Harris, Sarah E
AU - Davies, Gail
AU - Nutile, Teresa
AU - Krueger, Robert F
AU - Esko, Tõnu
AU - Schlessinger, David
AU - Toshiko, Tanaka
AU - Derringer, Jaime L
AU - Realo, Anu
AU - Hansell, Narelle K
AU - Pergadia, Michele L
AU - Pesonen, Anu-Katriina
AU - Sanna, Serena
AU - Terracciano, Antonio
AU - Madden, Pamela A F
AU - Penninx, Brenda
AU - Spinhoven, Philip
AU - Hartman, Catherina A
AU - Oostra, Ben A
AU - Janssens, A Cecile J W
AU - Eriksson, Johan G
AU - Starr, John
AU - Cannas, Alessandra
AU - Ferrucci, Luigi
AU - Metspalu, Andres
AU - Wright, Margeret J
AU - Heath, Andrew C
AU - van Duijn, Cornelia M
AU - Bierut, Laura J
AU - Raikkonen, Katri
AU - Martin, Nicholas G
AU - Ciullo, Marina
AU - Rujescu, Dan
AU - Boomsma, Dorret I
AU - Deary, Ian J
N1 - Copyright © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Human longevity and personality traits are both heritable and are consistently linked at the phenotypic level. We test the hypothesis that candidate genes influencing longevity in lower organisms are associated with variance in the five major dimensions of human personality (measured by the NEO-FFI and IPIP inventories) plus related mood states of anxiety and depression. Seventy single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in six brain expressed, longevity candidate genes (AFG3L2, FRAP1, MAT1A, MAT2A, SYNJ1, and SYNJ2) were typed in over 1,000 70-year old participants from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936 (LBC1936). No SNPs were associated with the personality and psychological distress traits at a Bonferroni corrected level of significance (P 60 years). Because we selected a specific set of longevity genes based on functional genomics findings, further research on other longevity gene candidates is warranted to discover whether they are relevant candidates for personality and psychological distress traits. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
AB - Human longevity and personality traits are both heritable and are consistently linked at the phenotypic level. We test the hypothesis that candidate genes influencing longevity in lower organisms are associated with variance in the five major dimensions of human personality (measured by the NEO-FFI and IPIP inventories) plus related mood states of anxiety and depression. Seventy single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in six brain expressed, longevity candidate genes (AFG3L2, FRAP1, MAT1A, MAT2A, SYNJ1, and SYNJ2) were typed in over 1,000 70-year old participants from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936 (LBC1936). No SNPs were associated with the personality and psychological distress traits at a Bonferroni corrected level of significance (P 60 years). Because we selected a specific set of longevity genes based on functional genomics findings, further research on other longevity gene candidates is warranted to discover whether they are relevant candidates for personality and psychological distress traits. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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U2 - 10.1002/ajmg.b.32013
DO - 10.1002/ajmg.b.32013
M3 - Article
C2 - 22213687
SN - 1552-485X
VL - 159B
SP - 192
EP - 200
JO - American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
JF - American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
IS - 2
ER -