Whole genome sequences of a male and female supercentenarian, ages greater than 114 years

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Sebastiani, Paola ^a   Riva, Alberto ^b   Montano, Monty ^c   Pham, Phillip ^d   Torkamani, Ali ^d   Scherba, Eugene ^e   Benson, Gary ^e   Milton, Jacqueline N ^a   Baldwin, Clinton T ^c   Andersen, Stacy ^c   Schork, Nicholas J ^d   Steinberg, Martin H ^c   Perls, Thomas T ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Centenarian; Genetics; Longevity; Supercentenarian; Whole genome sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855979661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00090     Document Type: Article

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