Publications
Bathum L, Christiansen L, Tan Q, Vaupel J, Jueune B, Christensen, K. No evidence for an association between extreme longevity and Microsomal Transfer Protein polymorphisms in a longitudinal study of 1651 nonagenarians. Eu. J. Hum. Gen., (2005) 13, 1154-1158.
Nebel A, Croucher PJ, Stiegeler R, Nikolaus S, Krawczak M, Schreiber S. No association between microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) haplotype and longevity in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., (2005) 31, 7906-9.
Warren S. Browner, MD, MPH; Arnold Kahn, PhD; Elad Ziv, MD; Alex Reiner, PhD; Junko Oshima, MD, PhD; Richard Cawthon, PhD; Wen-Chi Hsueh, PhD; Steven R. Cummings, MD. The Genetics of Human Longevity. Submitted to American Journal of Medicine.
Cawthon PM, Blackwell TL, Fullman RL, Cummings SR, Orwoll R, Barrett-Connor E and Zmuda JM for the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Research Group. Health Advantage for Elderly Men Whose Parents Survived to Extreme Old Age. Abstract to be submitted to Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, June 15-18, 2004.
Cawthon PM, Diehr P, Blackwell TL, Cummings SR and Zmuda JM. Survival advantage due to extreme parental longevity: Application of the years of healthy life method. Abstract to be submitted to Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, June 15-18, 2004.
Cawthon PM, Blackwell TL, Cummings SR, Psaty BM and Zmuda JM. Survival advantage for elderly women whose parents lived to extreme old age. Abstract submitted to American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, May 17-21, 2004.
Lind DL, Ziv E , Hsueh W-C, Kenyon C, Kahn AJ, Browner WS, Cummings SR, Kwok P-Y. Sequence variation in 3 human homologs of the C. elegans daf-16 gene: candidate genes for human longevity. Abstract presented at the ASHG 2002 meeting of the American Sociegy of Human Genetics.
Reiner A, Diehr P, Ziv E, Schork N, Lind D, Kwok P, Cushman M, Browner W, Humphries S, Walston J, Newman A, Kuller L, Tracy R, Psaty P. A common promoter polymorphism of the thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) gene may be associated with healthy aging in men: theCardiovascular Health Study. (Abstract submitted 01/04 for presentation at the AHA Atherosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology meeting in 05/04).
Ziv E, Lind D, Schork N, Reiner A, Psaty P, Harris T, Cauley J, Cummings SR, Kwok P-Y. Population stratification and cardiovascular and longevity phenotypes in African-American older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Abstract to be submitted for presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Genome Sequencing and Biology meeting in 05/04.