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Mitigating the tithonus error: genetic analysis of mortality phenotypes.

Science of aging knowledge environment : SAGE KE - 18 Sept 2002

Pletcher Scott D

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Summarizing an organism's age at death in terms of the mean or maximum life-span is the most popular way to describe genetic effects on aging. In this Perspective, the author describes a new study with the fly Drosophila melanogaster, in which another type of measure is also used: the age-dependent risk of death, or age-specific mortality. Changes in age-specific mortality reflect the underlying physiological...

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PMID: 14603004
DOI: 10.1126/sageke.2002.37.pe14

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