Centenarians as super-controls to assess the biological relevance of genetic risk factors for common age-related diseases: a proof of principle on type 2 diabetes.

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Published in Aging (Albany NY) on May 01, 2013

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Paolo Garagnani1, Cristina Giuliani, Chiara Pirazzini, Fabiola Olivieri, Maria Giulia Bacalini, Rita Ostan, Daniela Mari, Giuseppe Passarino, Daniela Monti, Anna Rita Bonfigli, Massimo Boemi, Antonio Ceriello, Stefano Genovese, Federica Sevini, Donata Luiselli, Paolo Tieri, Miriam Capri, Stefano Salvioli, Jan Vijg, Yousin Suh, Massimo Delledonne, Roberto Testa, Claudio Franceschi

Author Affiliations

1: DIMES - Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126 Italy. paolo.garagnani2@unibo.it

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