Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup D4a is a marker for extreme longevity in Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Bilal, Erhan ^a   Rabadan, Raul ^b   Alexe, Gabriela ^c   Fuku, Noriyuki ^d   Ueno, Hitomi ^d   Nishigaki, Yutaka ^d   Fujita, Yasunori ^e   Ito, Masafumi ^e   Arai, Yasumichi ^f   Hirose, Nobuyoshi ^f   Ruckenstein, Andrei ^g   Bhanot, Gyan ^a,b,h   Tanaka, Masashi ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e GIFU INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g Boston University   (United States)

^h RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADOLESCENT; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 48749085727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002421     Document Type: Article

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