{"id":121734,"date":"2021-04-19T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/age-related-diseases-can-be-linked-by-genetics"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:23:00","slug":"age-related-diseases-can-be-linked-by-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/age-related-diseases-can-be-linked-by-genetics","title":{"rendered":"Age-related diseases can be linked by genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/age-related-diseases-can-be-linked-by-genetics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a research paper published in <i>Nature Aging<\/i>, the team reports using a novel approach to provide the first data-driven classification of multiple diseases obtained using human genetic and medical data freely available from the UK Biobank.<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Professor Linda Partridge (UCL Institute of Health Aging and Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging) said: Advancing age is the main risk for major diseases, including cancer, dementia, and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cardiovascular+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cardiovascular disease<\/a>. Understanding the molecular links between the aging process and age-related diseases could allow them to be targeted with drugs to improve late-life health.<\/p>\n<p>The striking finding from the study was that diseases with a similar age of onset were genetically more similar to each other than they were to diseases in the other three clusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a research paper published in Nature Aging, the team reports using a novel approach to provide the first data-driven classification of multiple diseases obtained using human genetic and medical data freely available from the UK Biobank. Co-author Professor Linda Partridge (UCL Institute of Health Aging and Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging) said: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}