Longevity gene identified

Telomerase gene identified.

1 Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, 3 Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA and 4 Department of Physics and Computer Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA * Corresponding author. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ...

Localized Leishmania Lymphadenitis Etiologic Agent Identified as Leishmania tropica Using Gene Sequencing

Leishmaniasis include several clinical manifestations, mostly cutaneous, visceral and mucosal (1, 2). Various species can lead to diverse clinical presentations. Thus species identification contribute to proper management (3). Localized Leishmania Lymphadenitis (LLL) is a distinct entity in clinicopathologic field presenting with isolated lymphadenitis and possible cocomitant cutaneous...

Chapter 11: Gene Expression Biomarkers and Longevity

Chronological age, a count of how many orbits of the sun an individual has made as a passenger of planet earth, is a useful but limited proxy of aging processes. Some individuals die of age related diseases in their sixties, while others live to double that age. As a result, a great deal of effort has been put into identifying biomarkers that reflect the underlying biological changes involved i...

New asthma susceptibility gene identified

association of sirt6 gene polymorphisms with human longevity

background: we aimed to identify the role of sirt 6 gene polymorphism rs350846 in human longevity. methods: sirt 6 c/g genotypes were determined using taqman snp genotyping assays in 169 long-lived inhabitants (lg group aged 90-110 yr), 158 healthy internal controls (internal control group; aged 26-82 yr) and 176 healthy external controls (external control group; aged 20-82 yr) without a family...