Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle? It takes two to tango

Immunity and Ageing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Passarino, Giuseppe ^a   De Rango, Francesco ^a   Montesanto, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calorie restriction; Genetics of aging; Human longevity

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO;

AGING; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FOXO GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IGF 1 GENE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84962179908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12979-016-0066-z     Document Type: Review

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