Volume 32 - Article 37 | Pages 1049–1064 Article has associated letter

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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