Blood group does not appear to affect longevity a pilot study in centenarians from Western Sicily

Biogerontology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 467-471

  Vasto, Sonya ^a,b   Caruso, Calogero ^a,b   Castiglia, Laura ^a,b   Duro, Giovanni ^c   Monastero, Roberto ^b   Rizzo, Claudia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

ABO; Centenarian; Genotyping; Immunogenetics; Longevity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD GROUP; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SICILY;

EID: 83255194143     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-011-9350-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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