Longevity defined as top 10% survivors and beyond is transmitted as a quantitative genetic trait

While human lifespan is only moderately heritable, “getting old” runs in families. Here, van den Berg et al. study mortality data from three-generation cohorts to define a threshold for longevity and find that individuals have an increasing survival advantage with each additional relative in the top...

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Autores principales: Niels van den Berg, Mar Rodríguez-Girondo, Ingrid K. van Dijk, Rick J. Mourits, Kees Mandemakers, Angelique A. P. O. Janssens, Marian Beekman, Ken R. Smith, P. Eline Slagboom
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/44642dfb9cb94830b8332d5e5db86fc0
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