Giovanna De Benedictis

The mitochondrial DNA control region shows genetically correlated levels of heteroplasmy in leukocytes of centenarians and their offspring (2007)

Rose, Giuseppina, Passarino, Giuseppe, Scornaienchi, Vittorio, Romeo, Giuseppe, Dato, Serena, Bellizzi, Dina, ...

Abstract Background Studies on heteroplasmy occurring in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region (CR) in leukocytes of centenarians and younger subjects have shown that the C150T somatic...

Genetics of healthy aging in europe (2007)

Franceschi, Claudio, Bezrukov, Vladyslav, Blanché, Hélène, Bolund, Lars, Christensen, Kaare, De Benedictis, Giovanna, ...

The aim of the 5-year European Union (EU)-Integrated Project GEnetics of Healthy Aging (GEHA), constituted by 25 partners (24 from Europe plus the Beijing Genomics Institute from China), is to...

A study of the average effect of the 3'APOB-VNTR polymorphism on lipidemic parameters could explain why the short alleles ( (2004)

Garasto, Sabrina, Berardelli, Maurizio, DeRango, Francesco, Mari, Vincenzo, Feraco, Emidio, De Benedictis, Giovanna

Abstract Background In studies on the genetics of human aging, we observed an age-related variation of the 3'APOB-VNTR genotypic pool (alleles: Short , S , 39 repeats) with the homozygous SS genotype...

Multidisciplinary approaches in genetic studies of human aging and longevity (2004)

Tan, Qihua, Yashin, Anatoli I., Christensen, Kaare, Jeune, Bernard, De Benedictis, Giovanna, Kruse, Torben A., ...

The amount of research on human aging and longevity has been growing rapidly in recent years. Multidisciplinary approaches, which integrate classic population genetics methods with the principles of...

Assessing genetic association with human survival at multi-allelic loci (2004)

Tan, Qihua, De Benedictis, Giovanna, Yashin, Anatoli I., Bathum, Lise, Christiansen, Lene, Dahlgaard, Jesper, ...

Genetic variation plays an important role in natural selection and population evolution. However, it also presents geneticists interested in aging research with problems in data analysis because of...

Strikingly higher frequency in centenarians and twins of mtDNA mutation causing remodeling of replication origin in leukocytes (2003)

Zhang, Jin, Asin-Cayuela, Jordi, Fish, Jennifer, Michikawa, Yuichi, Bonafé, Massimiliano, Olivieri, Fabiola, ...

The presence of a genetic component in longevity is well known. Here, the association of a mtDNA mutation with a prolonged life span in humans was investigated. Large-scale screening of the mtDNA...

Variability of the SIRT3 gene, human silent information regulator Sir2 homologue, and survivorship in the elderly (2003)

Rose, Guiseppina, Dato, Serena, Altomare, Katia, Bellizzi, Dina, Garasto, Sabrina, Greco, Valentina, ...

The human sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) gene encodes a putative mitochondrial NAD-dependent deacetylase (SIRT3) which belongs to the evolutionary conserved family of sirtuin 2 proteins. Studies in model...

Logistic regression models for polymorphic and antagonistic pleiotropic gene action on human aging and longevity (2003)

Tan, Qihua, Bathum, Lise, Christiansen, Lene, De Benedictis, Giovanna, Dahlgaard, Jesper, Frizner, N, ...

In this paper, we apply logistic regression models to measure genetic association with human survival for highly polymorphic and pleiotropic genes. By modelling genotype frequency as a function of...

The influences on human longevity by HUMTHO1.STR polymorphism (Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene): a relative risk approach (2002)

Tan, Qihua, Bellizzi, Dina, Rose, Guiseppina, Garasto, S., Franceschi, Claudio, Kruse, Torben, ...

A new method based on the recently developed relative risk approach is introduced, and applied to data from Italian centenarian study (965 subjects aged from 13 to 109 years old) for investigating...

Y chromosome binary markers to study the high prevalence of males in Sardinian centenarians and the genetic structure of the Sardinian population (2001)

Passarino, Giuseppe, Underhill, Peter A., Cavalli-Sforza, Luca, Baggio, Giovannella, Semino, Ornella, Pes, Giovanni Mario, ...

We have analyzed a sample of 40 centenarians and 116 young controls from Sardinia, with a set of new Y chromosome binary markers, to evaluate if Y chromosome genes are involved in the high prevalence...

P53 Codon 72 polymorphism and longevity: additional data on centenarians from continental Italy and Sardinia (1999)

Bonafè, Massimiliano, Olivieri, Fabiola, Mari, Daniela, Baggio, Giovannella, Mattace, Rosario, Berardelli, Maurizio, ...

In a previous letter (Bonafè et al. 1999) we tested the hypothesis that polymorphic variants of p53 have an impact on human longevity, by comparing p53 codon 72 allelic and genotypic frequency...

Strikingly higher frequency in centenarians and twins of mtDNA mutation causing remodeling of replication origin in leukocytes

Zhang, Jin, Asin-Cayuela, Jordi, Fish, Jennifer, Michikawa, Yuichi, Bonafé, Massimiliano, Olivieri, Fabiola, ...

The presence of a genetic component in longevity is well known. Here, the association of a mtDNA mutation with a prolonged life span in humans was investigated. Large-scale screening of the mtDNA...

Strikingly higher frequency in centenarians and twins of mtDNA mutation causing remodeling of replication origin in leukocytes

Zhang, Jin, Asin-Cayuela, Jordi, Fish, Jennifer, Michikawa, Yuichi, Bonafé, Massimiliano, Olivieri, Fabiola, ...

The presence of a genetic component in longevity is well known. Here, the association of a mtDNA mutation with a prolonged life span in humans was investigated. Large-scale screening of the mtDNA...