Genetic influences on aging

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 11-22

  Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

cell cycle; genetics; human genes

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIFESPAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; WERNER SYNDROME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030896785     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(96)00079-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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