Assortative Mating by Ethnicity in Longevous Families

Recent work shows strong evidence of ancestry-based assortative mating in spouse pairs of the older generation of the Framingham Heart Study. Here, we extend this analysis to two studies of human longevity: the Long Life Family Study (LLFS), and the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). In the LLFS,...

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Main Authors: Paola Sebastiani, Anastasia Gurinovich, Harold Bae, Stacy L. Andersen, Thomas T. Perls
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2017.00186/full