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HLA and longevity or aging among Shanghai Chinese.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Mar 1997
Ma Y X, Zhu Y, Wang Z S, Wang C F, Chen S Y, Zhao M T, Zhang G L, Zheng S Q, Zhang J G, Gu Q, He L
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-two centenarians and one hundred and seventy-nine nonagenarians (mean age 93 +/- 1.04 years) in the Shanghai Region of China were phenotyped for alleles of A (13 types), B (21 types) and C (6 types) loci of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA). The frequencies of HLA antigens were compared with 211 healthy adults whose ages ranged from 20 to 50 years. It was observed that A9 was highly associated with...
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