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ArticleAge (Dordrecht, Netherlands)2013

Association of the K153R polymorphism in the myostatin gene and extreme longevity.

Nuria Garatachea, Tomàs Pinós, Yolanda Cámara, Gabriel Rodríguez-Romo, Enzo Emanuele, Giovanni Ricevuti, Letizia Venturini, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Catalina Santiago-Dorrego, Carmen Fiuza-Luces and 3 more

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Article in Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Nuria GaratacheaFacultad de Ciencias de la Salud y del Deporte, Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain.
Tomàs Pinós
Yolanda Cámara
Gabriel Rodríguez-Romo
Enzo Emanuele
Giovanni Ricevuti
Letizia Venturini
Alejandro Santos-Lozano
Catalina Santiago-Dorrego
Carmen Fiuza-Luces
Thomas Yvert
Antoni L Andreu
Alejandro Lucia
Universidad Europea de Madrid · ESUniversity of Pavia · ITCentre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases · ESUniversidad de Zaragoza · ESUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid · ESVall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The myostatin (MSTN) gene is a candidate to influence extreme longevity owing to its role in modulating muscle mass and sarcopenia and especially in inhibiting the main nutrient-sensing pathway involved in longevity, i.e. mammalian target of rapamycin. We compared allele/genotype distributions of the exonic MSTN variants K153R (rs1805086), E164K (rs35781413), I225T and P198A, in Spanish centenarians (cases, n = 156; 132 women, age range 100-111 years) and younger adults (controls, n = 384; 167 women, age <50 years). No subject of either group carried a mutant allele of the E164K, I225T or P198A variation. The frequency of the variant R allele was significantly higher in centenarians (7.1%) than in controls (2.7%) (P = 0.001). The odds ratio of being a centenarian if the subject had the R allele was 3.48 (95% confidence interval 1.67-7.28, P = 0.001), compared to the control group, after adjusting for sex. The results were replicated in an Italian cohort (centenarians, n = 79 (40 women), age range 100-104 years; younger controls, n = 316 (155 women), age <50 years), where a higher frequency of the R allele in centenarians (7.6%) compared to controls (3.0%) (P = 0.004) was independently confirmed. Although more research is needed, the variant allele of the MSTN K153R polymorphism could be among the genetic contributors associated with exceptional longevity.

Indexed as

Polymorphism, GeneticAged, 80 and overAllelesDNAFemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenotypeHumansLongevityMaleMyostatinPhenotypeRetrospective StudiesSarcopeniaDNAMSTN protein, humanMyostatin

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PMID23354683
PMCPMC3825013
OpenAlexW1995525913

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