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Name APOE
Type SNP
Species Homo sapiens
Tissue blood samples
Experiment Method qPCR
Up/Down Down
Pro/Anti Pro
Funtion Description We find that the epsilon 4 allele of APOE, which promotes premature atherosclerosis, is significantly less frequent in centenarians than in controls (p < 0.001), while the frequency of the epsilon 2 allele, associated previously with type III and IV hyper
Regulation Gene APOE
Year 1994
Pubmed ID 8136829
Title Genetic associations with human longevity at the APOE and ACE loci
Drug NA
Disease prematureatherosclerosis
Environment Factors NA
Circulating 1
Variant SNP
High-throughput NA