Mitochondrial polymorphisms are associated both with increased and decreased longevity

Human Heredity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 147-153

  Castri, Loredana ^a   Melendez Obando, Mauricio ^b   Villegas Palma, Ramon ^b   Barrantes, Ramiro ^b   Raventos, Henrieta ^b   Pereira, Reynaldo ^b   Luiselli, Donata ^a   Pettener, Davide ^a   Madrigal, Lorena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential longevity; Genetic basis of unusual longevity; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; EUROPE; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION; PROBABILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COSTA RICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 57449102790     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000181152     Document Type: Article

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