Mortality invariants and their genetic implications

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 9037-9041

  Azbel, Mark Yacov ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Life tables; Mortality rate; Universality

Indexed keywords

AGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032555260     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.15.9037     Document Type: Article

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