Comparative genetics of longevity and cancer: Insights from long-lived rodents

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 531-540

  Gorbunova, Vera ^a   Seluanov, Andrei ^a   Zhang, Zhengdong ^b   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^c   Vijg, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; INTERFERON;

ADAPTATION; AGING; BODY MASS; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HEREDITY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; MAMMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE;

AGING; ANIMALS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; LONGEVITY; MICE; NEOPLASMS; RATS; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84904544431     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3728     Document Type: Review

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