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Number of Children and Telomere Length in Women: A Prospective, Longitudinal Evaluation
Life history theory (LHT) predicts a trade-off between reproductive effort and the pace of biological aging. Energy invested in reproduction is not available for tissue maintenance, thus having more offspring is expected to lead to accelerated senescence. Studies conducted in a variety of non-human...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26731744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146424 |