Mitochondrial genotype associated with longevity

Lancet

Volumn 351, Issue 9097, 1998, Pages 185-186

  Tanaka, Masashi ^a   Gong, Jian Sheng ^b   Zhang, Jin ^b   Yoneda, Makoto ^b   Yagi, Kunio ^b  

^a GIFU INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MITOCHONDRION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0032539447     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)78211-8     Document Type: Article

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