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Kleemeier award lecture: are there genes for aging?
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Jul 1999
Miller R A
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The question of whether aging - the process that converts fit adults into frailer adults with a progressively increased risk of illness, injury, and death - is under genetic control is ambiguous, and its answer depends on what one means by aging. Natural selection can select for genes that retard aging, but only in species and niches where the value of prolonged survival outweighs its costs. Although the form...
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