The aim of the study is to identify genetic mechanisms of longevity and to characterize their interaction with the environment. Using the results the future health of people without familial longevity can be improved in old age. Long-lived siblings of European descent were recruited together with th...
Overweight and obesity affect ~1.5 billion people worldwide, and are major risk factors for type-2 diabetes (T2D), cardiovascular disease and related metabolic and inflammatory disturbances.1,2 Although the mechanisms linking adiposity to its clinical sequelae are poorly understood, recent studies s...
Summary statistics for a multi-cohort epigenome-wide association study. This includes summary statistics (effect-size, standard error, p-value) for 470,000 methylation markers.
Whole exome paired-end sequencing data was obtained for a trio and a fourth unrelated individual sequenced to high depth (95x) using a paired-end library with the Illumina HiSeq platform and aligned by BWA 0.5.9. The bam files were analysed and experimentally vaidated for the novel insertion of mobi...
