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

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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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07925-0

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07925-0

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