The genetics of age-related health outcomes

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 67 A, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 467-469

  Crimmins, Eileen M ^a   Finch, Caleb E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DISEASES; EDITORIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LONGEVITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84860162073     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gls101     Document Type: Review

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