Secular trends towards delayed onsets of pathologies and prolonged longevities in Japanese patients with Werner syndrome

BioScience Trends

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-87

  Goto, Makoto ^a   Matsuura, Masaaki ^b  

^a TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Environment; Genetics; Longevity; Werner syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 77952315909     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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