Identification and characterization of two functional variants in the human longevity gene FOXO3

Identification and characterization of two functional variants in the human longevity gene FOXO3

FOXO3 is one of the few established longevity genes. Here, the authors fine-map the FOXO3-longevity association to two intronic SNPs and, using luciferase assays and EMSAs, show that these SNPs affect binding of transcription factors CTCF and SRF and associate with FOXO3 expression.

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Main Authors: Friederike Flachsbart, Janina Dose, Liljana Gentschew, Claudia Geismann, Amke Caliebe, Carolin Knecht, Marianne Nygaard, Nandini Badarinarayan, Abdou ElSharawy, Sandra May, Anne Luzius, Guillermo G. Torres, Marlene Jentzsch, Michael Forster, Robert Häsler, Kathrin Pallauf, Wolfgang Lieb, Céline Derbois, Pilar Galan, Dmitriy Drichel, Alexander Arlt, Andreas Till, Ben Krause-Kyora, Gerald Rimbach, Hélène Blanché, Jean-François Deleuze, Lene Christiansen, Kaare Christensen, Michael Nothnagel, Philip Rosenstiel, Stefan Schreiber, Andre Franke, Susanne Sebens, Almut Nebel
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f1d90b23cde74314abd23e1b467785a0
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Summary:FOXO3 is one of the few established longevity genes. Here, the authors fine-map the FOXO3-longevity association to two intronic SNPs and, using luciferase assays and EMSAs, show that these SNPs affect binding of transcription factors CTCF and SRF and associate with FOXO3 expression.

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