James W Vaupel

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Top papers

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1 Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Lancet 2009 13.42
2 Demography. Broken limits to life expectancy. Science 2002 10.65
3 The quest for genetic determinants of human longevity: challenges and insights. Nat Rev Genet 2006 3.93
4 A stress-sensitive reporter predicts longevity in isogenic populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat Genet 2005 3.29
5 Physical and cognitive functioning of people older than 90 years: a comparison of two Danish cohorts born 10 years apart. Lancet 2013 3.29
6 Genetic influence on human lifespan and longevity. Hum Genet 2006 3.27
7 Telomere length and mortality: a study of leukocytes in elderly Danish twins. Am J Epidemiol 2008 2.85
8 Predictors of mortality in 2,249 nonagenarians--the Danish 1905-Cohort Survey. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003 2.79
9 The Danish Twin Registry: 127 birth cohorts of twins. Twin Res 2002 2.53
10 No association between telomere length and survival among the elderly and oldest old. Epidemiology 2006 2.33
11 Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging. Aging Clin Exp Res 2008 2.33
12 Exceptional longevity does not result in excessive levels of disability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 2.19
13 Age trajectories of grip strength: cross-sectional and longitudinal data among 8,342 Danes aged 46 to 102. Ann Epidemiol 2006 1.97
14 Longevity studies in GenomEUtwin. Twin Res 2003 1.66
15 A meta-analysis of four genome-wide association studies of survival to age 90 years or older: the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2010 1.65
16 The co-occurrence of mtDNA mutations on different oxidative phosphorylation subunits, not detected by haplogroup analysis, affects human longevity and is population specific. Aging Cell 2013 1.56
17 Hand grip strength: a phenotype suitable for identifying genetic variants affecting mid- and late-life physical functioning. Genet Epidemiol 2002 1.46
18 Improving activities of daily living in danish centenarians--but only in women: a comparative study of two birth cohorts born in 1895 and 1905. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2008 1.40
19 Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study. BMJ 2009 1.40
20 Effects of FOXO genotypes on longevity: a biodemographic analysis. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2010 1.38
21 The heritability of telomere length among the elderly and oldest-old. Twin Res Hum Genet 2005 1.35
22 Genome-wide linkage analysis for human longevity: Genetics of Healthy Aging Study. Aging Cell 2013 1.33
23 Reproductive improvement and senescence in a long-lived bird. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 1.31
24 Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union. BMJ 2006 1.28
25 Age trajectories of genetic variance in physical functioning: a longitudinal study of Danish twins aged 70 years and older. Behav Genet 2003 1.27
26 Centenarians--a useful model for healthy aging? A 29-year follow-up of hospitalizations among 40,000 Danes born in 1905. Aging Cell 2009 1.27
27 Why some women look young for their age. PLoS One 2009 1.24
28 Genetics of healthy aging in Europe: the EU-integrated project GEHA (GEnetics of Healthy Aging). Ann N Y Acad Sci 2007 1.21
29 Increased effect of the ApoE gene on survival at advanced age in healthy and long-lived Danes: two nationwide cohort studies. Aging Cell 2010 1.20
30 "Looking old for your age": genetics and mortality. Epidemiology 2004 1.19
31 Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 1.15
32 The Danish Twin Registry in the new millennium. Twin Res Hum Genet 2006 1.15
33 Genetic contribution to rate of change in functional abilities among Danish twins aged 75 years or more. Am J Epidemiol 2002 1.15
34 Losses of expected lifetime in the United States and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses. Demography 2011 1.14
35 Evolution. Getting to the root of aging. Science 2012 1.13
36 Family clustering in Sardinian longevity: a genealogical approach. Exp Gerontol 2006 1.10
37 Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US. Eur J Epidemiol 2010 1.10
38 Human longevity and variation in GH/IGF-1/insulin signaling, DNA damage signaling and repair and pro/antioxidant pathway genes: cross sectional and longitudinal studies. Exp Gerontol 2012 1.10
39 Loss of partner and suicide risks among oldest old: a population-based register study. Age Ageing 2004 1.09
40 The male-female health-survival paradox: a survey and register study of the impact of sex-specific selection and information bias. Ann Epidemiol 2009 1.09
41 Evidence from case-control and longitudinal studies supports associations of genetic variation in APOE, CETP, and IL6 with human longevity. Age (Dordr) 2012 1.09
42 Major genetic susceptibility for venous thromboembolism in men: a study of Danish twins. Epidemiology 2003 1.07
43 The Danish Twin Registry: linking surveys, national registers, and biological information. Twin Res Hum Genet 2012 1.05
44 Tooth cementum annulation for age estimation: results from a large known-age validation study. Am J Phys Anthropol 2004 1.05
45 Cognitive impairment and mortality among nonagenarians: the Danish 1905 cohort survey. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2002 0.99
46 Advances in measuring lifespan in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 0.96
47 Comment on "Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans". Science 2005 0.95
48 Do children of long-lived parents age more successfully? Epidemiology 2002 0.95
49 Biological mechanisms of disease and death in Moscow: rationale and design of the survey on Stress Aging and Health in Russia (SAHR). BMC Public Health 2009 0.94
50 Sex differential in mortality trends of old-aged Danes: a nation wide study of age, period and cohort effects. Eur J Epidemiol 2008 0.94
51 A centenarian-only approach for assessing gene-gene interaction in human longevity. Eur J Hum Genet 2002 0.92
52 Hair loss among elderly men: etiology and impact on perceived age. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2005 0.91
53 Sex differences in the level and rate of change of physical function and grip strength in the Danish 1905-cohort study. J Aging Health 2010 0.90
54 Angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism in relation to physical performance, cognition and survival--a follow-up study of elderly Danish twins. Ann Epidemiol 2003 0.89
55 Survival differences among native-born and foreign-born older adults in the United States. PLoS One 2012 0.88
56 Changes in hospitalisation and surgical procedures among the oldest-old: a follow-up study of the entire Danish 1895 and 1905 cohorts from ages 85 to 99 years. Age Ageing 2013 0.88
57 The heritability of cause-specific mortality: a correlated gamma-frailty model applied to mortality due to respiratory diseases in Danish twins born 1870-1930. Stat Med 2003 0.88
58 A novel sampling design to explore gene-longevity associations: the ECHA study. Eur J Hum Genet 2007 0.86
59 An allele of HRAS1 3'variable number of tandem repeats is a frailty allele: implication for an evolutionarily-conserved pathway involved in longevity. Gene 2002 0.85
60 Prevalence, components, and correlates of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among elderly Muscovites. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2011 0.85
61 Cancer and longevity--is there a trade-off? A study of cooccurrence in Danish twin pairs born 1900-1918. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2012 0.85
62 Biodemographic trajectories of age-specific reproliferation from stationary phase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae seem multiphasic. Mech Ageing Dev 2003 0.84
63 Steep increase in best-practice cohort life expectancy. Popul Dev Rev 2011 0.83
64 Physical and mental decline and yet rather happy? A study of Danes aged 45 and older. Aging Ment Health 2014 0.83
65 The correlation of fecundability among twins: evidence of a genetic effect on fertility? Epidemiology 2003 0.82
66 Symmetrically dividing cells of the fission yeast schizosaccharomyces pombe do age. Biogerontology 2006 0.82
67 Reproduction life history and hip fractures. Ann Epidemiol 2002 0.82
68 Plasticity of death rates in stationary phase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Aging Cell 2008 0.82
69 Estimating haplotype relative risks on human survival in population-based association studies. Hum Hered 2005 0.81
70 Skewed X inactivation and survival: a 13-year follow-up study of elderly twins and singletons. Eur J Hum Genet 2011 0.81
71 Perceived stress and biological risk: is the link stronger in Russians than in Taiwanese and Americans? Stress 2013 0.79
72 Optimism and survival: does an optimistic outlook predict better survival at advanced ages? A twelve-year follow-up of Danish nonagenarians. Aging Clin Exp Res 2013 0.79
73 Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements. J Aging Res 2011 0.78
74 A case-only approach for assessing gene by sex interaction in human longevity. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2002 0.78
75 Twins with implanted pacemakers: Is there an increased mortality risk for the co-twin? A follow-up study based on the Danish Twin Registry and the Danish Pacemaker Register. Europace 2005 0.78
76 [More people live to be very old and with a better functioning]. Ugeskr Laeger 2013 0.77
77 Structuring an ethical decision dilemma. Soundings 1975 0.75
78 [Do children of long-lived parents age more successfully?]. Ugeskr Laeger 2002 0.75
79 [Why Danes are smug--a comparative study of life satisfaction in the EU]. Ugeskr Laeger 2006 0.75
80 Stem cell divisions per se do not cause cancer. Epidemiology 2016 0.75
81 ["Looking your age"--genetics and mortality]. Ugeskr Laeger 2004 0.75
82 James Vaupel: an innovator in the demography of ageing. Interview by Samuel Loewenberg. Lancet 2009 0.75