INFLUENCE OF MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX REGION GENES ON HUMAN LONGEVITY AMONG OKINAWAN-JAPANESE CENTENARIANS AND NONAGENARIANS

The Lancet

Volumn 330, Issue 8563, 1987, Pages 824-826

  Takata, Hajime ^a   Ishii, Toshiharu ^c   Suzuki, Makoto ^b   Sekiguchi, Susumu ^d   Iri, Hisami ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

AGE; AGED; GENE LOCUS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHENOTYPE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023265164     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(87)91015-4     Document Type: Article

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