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ArticleAging2017

Human longevity: 25 genetic loci associated in 389,166 UK biobank participants.

Luke C Pilling, Chia-Ling Kuo, Kamil Sicinski, Jone Tamosauskaite, George A Kuchel, Lorna W Harries, Pamela Herd, Robert Wallace, Luigi Ferrucci, David Melzer

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Article in Aging, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 135 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
135citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
22.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

135 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 237 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Luke C PillingEpidemiology and Public Health Group, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Level 3, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK.
Chia-Ling KuoDepartment of Community Medicine and Health Care, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Health Center, CT 06269, USA.
Kamil SicinskiCenter for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Jone TamosauskaiteEpidemiology and Public Health Group, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Level 3, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK.
George A KuchelUConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.
Lorna W HarriesInstitute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Level 3, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.
Pamela HerdLa Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Robert WallaceCollege of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Luigi FerrucciNational Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
David MelzerEpidemiology and Public Health Group, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Level 3, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK.
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital · GBUConn Health · USNational Institute on Aging · USOklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences · USUniversity of Exeter · GBUniversity of Iowa · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

HRS Yrs29-34: Y33 SSA CoFundingU01AG009740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Jessica Faul, KENNETH M LANGA · 1990 to 2026
$555.8M
WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY--SIBLING INTERVIEWS (1)R01AG009775 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI HERD, PAMELA · 1991 to 2012
$23.4M
Statistical Data Enclave CoreP30AG017266 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Michal Engelman · 1999 to 2026
$17.0M
WORK, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEINGP01AG021079 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI HERD, PAMELA · 2002 to 2011
$14.2M
Aging Together: Brothers and Sisters of the Wisconsin Longitudinal StudyR01AG033285 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI HERD, PAMELA, WARREN, JOHN ROBERT · 2009 to 2013
$11.8M
Medical Research Council MC_QA137853Medical Research Council MR/M023095/1NIA NIH HHS P01 AG021079NIA NIH HHS P30 AG017266NIA NIH HHS R01 AG009775NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033285NIA NIH HHS U01 AG009740
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We undertook a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of parental longevity in European descent UK Biobank participants. For combined mothers' and fathers' attained age, 10 loci were associated (p<5*10

Indexed as

AdultAgedBiological Specimen BanksFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansLongevityMaleMiddle AgedMultifactorial InheritanceParentsUnited Kingdom1417geneticGWAShumanlongevity

Identifiers

PMID29227965
PMCPMC5764389
OpenAlexW2771230199

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