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The two halves of U-shaped mortality

Gerontology focuses on deterioration with increasing age, but in most populations most variables, including survival probability, improve at early ages (ontogenescence) before deteriorating at advanced ages (senescence). The extent to which gerontology needs to consider this U-shaped pattern of risk...

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Autores principales: Levitis, Daniel A., Martínez, Daniel E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3601328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23516134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2013.00031