Telomeres and the natural lifespan limit in humans

An ongoing debate in demography has focused on whether the human lifespan has a maximal natural limit. Taking a mechanistic perspective, and knowing that short telomeres are associated with diminished longevity, we examined whether telomere length dynamics during adult life could set a maximal natur...

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Autores principales: Steenstrup, Troels, Kark, Jeremy D., Verhulst, Simon, Thinggaard, Mikael, Hjelmborg, Jacob V. B., Dalgård, Christine, Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm, Christiansen, Lene, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Petersen, Inge, Kimura, Masayuki, Benetos, Athanase, Labat, Carlos, Sinnreich, Ronit, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Levy, Daniel, Hunt, Steven C., Fitzpatrick, Annette L., Chen, Wei, Berenson, Gerald S., Barbieri, Michelangela, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Gadalla, Shahinaz M., Savage, Sharon A., Christensen, Kaare, Yashin, Anatoliy I., Arbeev, Konstantin G., Aviv, Abraham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals 2017
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28394764
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.101216

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