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Nat Med. 2020 Feb;26(2):178-180. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0710-1. Epub 2019 Dec 23.

No statistical evidence for an effect of CCR5-∆32 on lifespan in the UK Biobank cohort.

Nature medicine

Robert Maier, Ali Akbari, Xinzhu Wei, Nick Patterson, Rasmus Nielsen, David Reich

Affiliations

  1. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. [email protected].
  2. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. [email protected].
  3. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. [email protected].
  4. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. [email protected].
  5. Department of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  6. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  7. Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  8. GeoGenetics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  9. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  10. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 31873311 PMCID: PMC7302696 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0710-1

[No abstract available.]

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