Table 3 Several leukocyte telomere length associated SNPs are also associated with intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration in blood

From: GWAS of epigenetic aging rates in blood reveals a critical role for TERT

Study

Chr

Gene

SNP

A1

MAF

Effect size (β)

Meta P-value

      

LTL

IEAA

EEAA

LTL

IEAA

EEAA

II

2

ACYP2

rs11125529

A

0.14

0.06

−0.06

−0.15

4.5 × 10−8

0.5

2.5 × 10−1

III

3

PXK

rs6772228

A

0.06

−120

0.26

0.20

3.9 × 10−10

1.3 × 10−1

3.7 × 10−1

II

3

TERC

rs10936599

T

0.24

−0.10

0.04

−0.07

2.5 × 10−31

0.7

4.7 × 10−1

III

3

 

rs1317082

G

0.23

−77

0.04

−0.08

1.3 × 10−19

0.7

4.6 × 10−1

II

4

NAF1

rs7675998

A

0.22

−0.07

−0.07

0.04

4.4 × 10−16

4.4 × 10−1

0.7

III

5

TERT

rs7726159

A

0.33

73

0.67

0.27

4.7 × 10−17

9.5 × 1012

6.4 × 10−2

I

5

 

rs7705526

A

0.33

0.51

0.61

0.18

2.3 × 10−14

1.0 × 1011

1.9 × 10−1

II

5

 

rs2736100

C

0.50

0.08

0.49

0.19

4.4 × 10−19

2.7 × 1011

8.2 × 10−2

III

10

OBFC1

rs2487999

T

0.14

100

0.22

0.36

4.2 × 10−14

3.7 × 10–2

8.8 × 10–3

II

10

 

rs9420907

C

0.20

0.07

0.26

0.20

6.9 × 10−11

4.1 × 10–3

9.9 × 10−2

II

16

MPHOSPH6

rs2967374

A

0.22

0.05

0.23

0.12

2.7 × 10−7

7.8 × 10–3

2.9 × 10−1

II

19

ZNF208

rs8105767

G

0.32

0.05

−0.05

−0.13

1.1 × 10−9

0.5

1.7 × 10−1

III

20

BCL2L1

rs6060627

T

0.34

36

−0.13

0.11

6.5 × 10−7

7.7 × 10−2

2.6 × 10−1

II

20

RTEL1

rs755017

G

0.15

0.06

0.03

−0.08

6.7 × 10−9

0.8

0.5

  1. P-values associated with age acceleration marked in italic if <0.05 and bold if <5.0 × 10−8
  2. The table relates genome-wide significant association results of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) to two epigenetic age acceleration measures, IEAA and EEAA. We queried the results of 14 SNPs across 10 distinct susceptibility loci associated with LTL from three large-scale studies: (I) meta-analysis association of LTL in chromosome 5 TERT only (N = 53,724)25, (II) a genome-wide meta-analysis of LTL (N = 37,684)26, and (III) a genome-wide meta-analysis of LTL (N = 26,089)27. Each row presents a genome-wide significant locus associated with LTL in a given study, except chromosome 16 MPHOSPH6 and chromosome 20 BCL2L1 just slightly below genome-wide significance and highlighted by the corresponding studies as major findings. The listed markers are the leading SNPs with the most significant P-values associated with LTL at a given study and locus, sorted by chromosome, and position. Effect sizes of LTL association refer to the change in telomere lengths (ΔTL). Telomere lengths were measured based on the relative telomere to single copy gene (T/S) ratios using standard qualitative PCR methods. A wide range of effect sizes for ΔTL across studies was due to different scaling approaches applied to the measurements. The effect sizes for each age acceleration measure are in units of year
  3. Chr = chromosome, A1 = reference allele, MAF = minor allele frequency; effect sizes corresponding additive models