title: Gender specific association of genetic variation in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)gamma-2 with longevity.
abstract: Long-lived subjects have been shown to have peculiar anthropometric features (i.e. lower body mass index (BMI)) and metabolic parameters (i.e. improved insulin sensitivity). Life style and a genetic background potentially protective against the age-related metabolic derangement might contribute to such a particular phenotype. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)gamma-2 is an important regulator of adipose tissue metabolism, insulin sensitivity and inflammatory response. Thus, the potential role of genetic variability at Pro/Ala loci of PPARG gene on longevity was studied in 222 long-lived subjects and 250 aged subjects. We found a different Pro/Ala genotype frequency distribution between long-lived and aged men subjects, long-lived men having an increased frequency of Pro/Ala genotype (20 vs 8.5%); no differences was found when allele and genotype distribution of Pro/Ala gene polymorphism were analyzed in the two age group of women. Interestingly, subjects with Pro/Ala polymorphism had significantly lower BMI than Ala/Ala and Pro/Pro polymorphism. In conclusion, our study demonstrated that paraoxonase Pro/Ala gene polyporphism is associated with human longevity. Such an effect is probably due to the effect of Pro/Ala polymorphism on body composition and appears to be gender specific.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, VI Divisione di Medicina Interna, II University of Naples, Piazza Miraglia 2, I-80138, Italy.
authors.forename: Michelangela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barbieri
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonafè
authors.forename: Maria Rosaria
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ragno
authors.forename: Fabiola
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Olivieri
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marchegiani
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Franceschi
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paolisso
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D000886:Anthropometry; D001823:Body Composition / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000235:genetics*; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D014157:Transcription Factors