Familial transmission of human longevity: A population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850-2010

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 325-349

  Salaris, Luisa ^a   Tedesco, Nicola ^a   Poulain, Michel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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