| Title: | Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality |
| Journal: | Nature Medicine |
| Published: | 19 Feb 2025 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39972219/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03483-9 |
| URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03483-9.pdf |
Publication 15313
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Abstract
Both environmental exposures and genetics are known to play important roles in shaping human aging. Here we aimed to quantify the relative contributions of environment (referred to as the exposome) and genetics to aging and premature mortality. To systematically identify environmental exposures associated with aging in the UK Biobank, we first conducted an exposome-wide analysis of all-cause mortality (n = 492,567) and then assessed the associations of these exposures with a proteomic age clock (n = 45,441), identifying 25 independent exposures associated with mortality and proteomic aging. These exposures were also associated with incident age-related multimorbidity, aging biomarkers and major disease risk factors. Compared with information on age and sex, polygenic risk scores for 22 major diseases explained less than 2 percentage points of additional mortality variation, whereas the exposome explained an additional 17 percentage points. Polygenic risk explained a greater proportion of variation (10.3-26.2%) compared with the exposome for incidence of dementias and breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, whereas the exposome explained a greater proportion of variation (5.5-49.4%) compared with polygenic risk for incidence of diseases of the lung, heart and liver. Our findings provide a comprehensive map of the contributions of environment and genetics to mortality and incidence of common age-related diseases, suggesting that the exposome shapes distinct patterns of disease and mortality risk, irrespective of polygenic disease risk.</p>
18 Keywords
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Aging
- Biomarkers
- Environmental Exposure
- Exposome
- Female
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mortality
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Proteomics
- Risk Factors
- United Kingdom
13 Authors
- M. Austin Argentieri
- Najaf Amin
- Alejo J. Nevado-Holgado
- William Sproviero
- Jennifer A. Collister
- Sarai M. Keestra
- Midas M. Kuilman
- Bigina N. R. Ginos
- Mohsen Ghanbari
- Aiden Doherty
- David J. Hunter
- Alexandra Alvergne
- Cornelia M. van Duijn
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 61054 | Social and Environmental Adversity in Relation to All-Cause Mortality |
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