Volume 32 - Article 37 | Pages 1049–1064
Demographic characteristics of Sardinian centenarian genealogies: Preliminary results of the AKeA2 study
By Rosa Maria Lipsi, Graziella Caselli, Lucia Pozzi, Giovannella Baggio, Ciriaco Carru, Claudio Franceschi, James W. Vaupel, Luca Deiana
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