Fitness consequences of advanced ancestral age over three generations in humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Hayward, Adam D ^a,b   Lummaa, Virpi ^a   Bazykin, Georgii A ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FATHER; FEMALE; FINN (CITIZEN); FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ADULT; AGED; FINLAND; GENETICS; LONGEVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84932626608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128197     Document Type: Article

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