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Paternal genome effects on aging: evidence for a role of Rasgrf1 in longevity determination?
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Jan 2000
de Magalhães João Pedro
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A recent study by Kawahara and Kono (2010) reports that mice artificially produced with two sets of female genomes have an increased average lifespan of 28%. Moreover, these animals exhibit a smaller body size, a trait also observed in several other long-lived mouse models. One hypothesis is that...
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