Build 14 (20/07/2008)

Welcome to GenAge, a curated database of genes related to ageing. GenAge is divided into genes related to longevity and/or ageing in model organisms and ageing-related human genes. The section on human ageing-related genes includes the few genes directly related to ageing in humans and the best candidate genes obtained from model organisms. Human genes are thus considerably better annotated and may serve as a starting point for future studies, including genetic association studies, or even for exploiting clinical interventions in human ageing.

A list of genes analyzed for their possible association with human longevity are also available. Though deprecated, a list of genes that may modulate ageing in mammals and a list of genes related to ageing in model organisms clustered according to functional groups are available as well.

The schema of GenAge is available online as well as GenAge's statistics. Release notes for the current build are also available.

GenAge is employed by many researchers and has been cited in several publications. It was highlighted in Science (307:187), Nature Reviews Genetics (5:1362), and BioTechniques (39:21).

Downloading GenAge

A zipped XML dump of the latest stable GenAge build is available for download. Also available are zipped tab-delimited ASCII files with all genes from the human dataset and all genes from the model organisms dataset.

Conditions of Use, Credits, and Feedback

GenAge is made freely available to everyone under the terms and conditions described in HAGR's license. Available are also the image credits.

If you find an error or wish to propose another gene to be included in the database, please contact us. To receive the latest GenAge news and announcements, such as notification when new builds are released, please join the HAGR-news mailing list.