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Associations between STR autosomal markers and longevity.
Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) - 1 Oct 2015
Bediaga N G, Aznar J M, Elcoroaristizabal X, Albóniga O, Gómez-Busto F, Artaza Artabe I, Rocandio Ana, de Pancorbo M M
Abstract excerpt
Life span is a complex and multifactorial trait, which is shaped by genetic, epigenetic, environmental, and stochastic factors. The possibility that highly hypervariable short tandem repeats (STRs) associated with longevity has been largely explored by comparing the genotypic pools of long lived and younger individuals, but results so far have been contradictory. In view of these contradictory findings, the...
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