Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity Are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating

Human life span is a phenotype that integrates many aspects of health and environment into a single ultimate quantity: the elapsed time between birth and death. Though it is widely believed that long life runs in families for genetic reasons, estimates of life span “heritability” are consistently lo...

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Autores principales: Ruby, J. Graham, Wright, Kevin M., Rand, Kristin A., Kermany, Amir, Noto, Keith, Curtis, Don, Varner, Neal, Garrigan, Daniel, Slinkov, Dmitri, Dorfman, Ilya, Granka, Julie M., Byrnes, Jake, Myres, Natalie, Ball, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Genetics Society of America 2018
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Investigations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30401766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301613

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30401766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301613

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