• General Strategies in Biomarker Research
• 55 min
  1. The proteomic revolution

  • Dr. Larry Gold
• 39 min
  2. Lipid biomarkers: lipidomics of the macrophage and plasma lipidomes

  • Prof. Edward A. Dennis
• New Tools for Biomarker Research
• 38 min
  3. The future of CNVs: sequence based resolution and links to human disease 1

  • Prof. Evan Eichler
• 31 min
  4. The future of CNVs: sequence based resolution and links to human disease 2

  • Prof. Evan Eichler
• 59 min
  5. Development of glyco-biomarkers using glycoproteomics technologies

  • Dr. Hisashi Narimatsu
• 32 min
  6. Circulating nucleic acids as biomarkers in cancer patients

  • Prof. Klaus Pantel
• Specific Disease Applications
• 28 min
  7. Biomarkers in breast cancer

  • Prof. Joe Duffy
• 71 min
  8. Bacterial biomarkers

  • Dr. Christiane Honisch
• 32 min
  9. Diabetes biomarkers

  • Prof. Naveed Sattar
• 60 min
  10. Gene networks, brain networks: understanding schizophrenia

  • Dr. Daniel Weinberger
• 29 min
  11. Biomarkers for Huntington's disease - promises and challenges

  • Prof. Sarah Tabrizi
• 31 min
  12. Update on fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

  • Prof. Henrik Zetterberg
• 31 min
  13. Biomarkers in osteoarthritis

  • Dr. Ali Mobasheri
• Biomarkers in Drug Discovery and Delivery
• 31 min
  14. Pharmacogenomics: emphasis on clinical drug development

  • Dr. Amelia Warner
• 25 min
  15. Biomarkers in drug development: potential use and challenges

  • Dr. Abdel-Bassett Halim
• 41 min
  16. Patient stratification for drug treatment in oncology and other diseases

  • Dr. Tim Harris
• Biomarkers in development, nutrition, and health
• 50 min
  17. Building genetic and environmental marker models to predict exceptional survival

  • Prof. Thomas Perls
• 29 min
  18. Ethnic differences in nutrition

  • Prof. Jose Ordovas
• 55 min
  19. Non-invasive prenatal diagnostics

  • Prof. Y. M. Dennis Lo
• 44 min
  20. Epigenetic biomarkers in cancer

  • Prof. Bob Brown
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 23 min
  21. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

  • Prof. Henrik Zetterberg

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1. Introduction
2. No financial disclosures to make
3. Exceptional longevity
4. Exceptional health span
5. Genetic basis of exceptional longevity
6. Rationale
7. Genome-wide association study
8. Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity
9. Genetic risk modeling
10. Longevity genes
11. Genetic model
12. The method's accuracy and specificity
13. Genetic risk profile
14. Highly predictive genetic risk profiles
15. Signatures (clusters of profiles)
16. Genetic dissection
17. Burden of disease alleles
18. Revised hypothesis
19. Drop APOE (rs2075650) from GRM
20. Conclusions - what centenarians tell us?
21. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• Genetic component of survival past 100
• Impact of 100s of genes
• Combinations of variations
• Number of signatures associated with survival to extreme old age

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Series:

• Biomarkers

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on January 31, 2013

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Thomas Perls has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.