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ArticleNature communications2025

Combining cross-sectional and longitudinal genomic approaches to identify determinants of cognitive and physical decline.

Tabea Schoeler, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Zoltán Kutalik

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tabea SchoelerDepartment of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. tabea.schoeler@unil.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4846-2741
Jean-Baptiste PingaultDepartment of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2557-4716
Zoltán KutalikDepartment of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. zoltan.kutalik@unil.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-7523

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 218641/Z/19/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large-scale genomic studies focusing on the genetic contribution to human aging have mostly relied on cross-sectional data. With the release of longitudinally curated aging phenotypes by the UK Biobank (UKBB), it is now possible to study aging over time at genome-wide scale. In this work, we evaluated the suitability of competing models of change in realistic simulation settings, performed genome-wide association scans on simulation-validated measures of age-related deweekcline, and followed up with LD-score regression and Mendelian Randomization (MR) analyses. Focusing on global cognitive and physical function, we observed marked differences between baseline function (θ) and accelerated decline (Δ). Both outcomes showed distinct heritability levels (e.g., 31.38%

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AgingCognitionCognitive DysfunctionAgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseBone DensityCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMendelian Randomization AnalysisMiddle Aged

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