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Genome-Wide Scan Informed by Age-Related Disease Identifies Loci for Exceptional Human Longevity.

PLoS Genet · 2015 · PMC4683064 · PMID 26677855

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nominally significantP < 0.005actually significant
Likewise, for Alzheimer’s disease, 14.4% of the top 250 disease SNPs are nominally significant for longevity, which is more than the 8.4% that would be expected by chance (1.7 fold enrichment; P < 0.005).

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highly significantno p-value reported
Furthermore, it seems desirable to treat SNPs highly significant for disease differently from SNPs only moderately associated with disease.

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