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. 2016 Nov 22;113(47):13269-13271.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1616274113. Epub 2016 Nov 11.

Genotyping the dead: Using offspring as proxy to estimate the genetic correlation of education and longevity

Dalton Conley  1 , Ramina Sotoudeh  2
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Genotyping the dead: Using offspring as proxy to estimate the genetic correlation of education and longevity

Dalton Conley et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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  • Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity.
    Marioni RE, Ritchie SJ, Joshi PK, Hagenaars SP, Okbay A, Fischer K, Adams MJ, Hill WD, Davies G; Social Science Genetic Association Consortium; Nagy R, Amador C, Läll K, Metspalu A, Liewald DC, Campbell A, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Esko T, Porteous DJ, Gale CR, Deary IJ. Marioni RE, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Nov 22;113(47):13366-13371. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605334113. Epub 2016 Oct 31. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 27799538 Free PMC article.

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