Historical demography and longevity genetics

Historical demography and longevity genetics: Back to the future

Research into the genetic component of human longevity can provide important insights in mechanisms that may protect against age-related ...

Historical demography and longevity genetics - Radboud Repository

Historical demography and longevity genetics: Back to the future. Niels van den Berga,∗, Marian Beekmana, Ken Robert Smithb, Angelique ...

The Contribution of Demographic Data in Genetic Studies on Aging ...

The purpose of such studies is to identify, by comparison of the frequencies of selected genotypes, “longevity” or “frailty” genes in the oldest and in younger ...

Demography of longevity: past, present, and future trends

But with increasing longevity, survivors at any age may be more or less healthy on average than in the past. Thus, the effect of population aging on medical ...

Historical demography and longevity genetics: Back to the future ...

Heritability and segregation of lifespan and longevity. •. Systematic overview of demographic twin and pedigree studies. •. Historical data is expected to be a ...

Impact of demography and population dynamics on the genetic ...

The genetic bases of longevity are thus highly population-specific and dependent from demographic, biological and environmental dynamics acting over different ...

Demography of longevity: past, present, and future trends

Based on available demographic evidence, the human life span shows no sign of approaching a fixed limit imposed by biology or other factors. Rather, both the ...

Historical demography and longevity genetics: Back to the future

Research into the genetic component of human longevity can provide important insights in mechanisms that may protect against age-related diseases and ...

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Demographic perspectives on the rise of longevity - PNAS

Studies of modern hunter-gatherers provide evidence about the long-term history of human longevity. Various estimates indicate a life expectancy at birth of ...

Longevity defined as top 10% survivors and beyond is transmitted ...

Our analyses provide strong evidence that longevity is transmitted as a quantitative genetic trait among survivors up to the top 10% of their birth cohort.

Genetics of Human Longevity Within an Eco-Evolutionary Nature ...

Variation between phenotypes in a population arises because of the average differences between the genotypes or because each genotype exhibits ...

Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle? It takes two to tango

Healthy aging and longevity in humans are modulated by a lucky combination of genetic and non-genetic factors.

Is longevity determined by genetics? - MedlinePlus

Scientists speculate that for the first seven or eight decades, lifestyle is a stronger determinant of health and life span than genetics.

Historical demography and longevity genetics. Back to the future

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a genealogical inquiry into the familial component of longevity

Chapter 2: Historical demography and longevity genetics: back to the future ... Figure 1: Difference between lifespan and longevity. Longevity. Complete Lifespan.

Genetics of human longevity: From variants to genes to pathways

Although the number of genetic studies has dramatically increased over the past decades, the number of identified genes that are reliably ...

The Contextualized Genetics of Human Longevity: JACC Focus ...

The genetics of human longevity has long been studied, and in this regard, centenarians represent a very informative model.

Healthy lifestyle in late-life, longevity genes, and life expectancy ...

Lifestyle and longevity genes have different and important roles in the human lifespan; however, the association between a healthy lifestyle ...

The Unusual Genetics of Human Longevity - Science

The most intriguing finding revealed by genetic demographic (GD) approaches is the discovery that the composition of the gene pool in terms of allele ...