… study was to use a representative population-based twin … birth cohorts in this study (ie, with
cohorts born between 1870 and … 202 same sex fraternal/dizygotic twin pairs. At baseline, the …

… significant for longevity in the Danish population [… study of human longevity is a difficult task,
as longevity phenotype is dependent on multiple other factors like individual health, genetics…

… For lifespan, studies on Danish and Swedish twins estimated … derived from the smaller
population-based studies—none of … Scotland born before 1966 to explore how trends in longevity …

… studied population and the environmental exposures current in that population 10 . Widely
cited heritability estimates for human longevity from twin studies … the heritability of longevity to …

… born without exposure to the epidemic. The height of adults at the time of enrolment for World
War II was lower than that of people born in … to the study of the genetics of human longevity …

… for life span using standard methods of quantitative genetics … In this study, we compare siblings
of centenarians born in the … SNPs associated with human longevity using survival analysis…

… two large population-based multi-generational family studies … human longevity has a genetic
component, genetic studies … -off would correspond, for those born around 1900 with an age …

… During the past 200 years human life expectancy at birth … to individual or population based
lifespan. Both definitions … that first born children live longer than those who are born later, …

… is a population-based cohort study of same-sexed twins aged … , they rated the first-born
and second-born on different days. … of lifespan of 2872 pairs illustrating high within-twin pair …

… Human life expectancy has been on a phenomenal rise, and globally, the average life
expectancy … In support, a study in a Danish population, the genetic contribution of frailty was …