title: A personal retrospective on the genetics of aging.
abstract: This is a personal account of the early days in the genetic analysis of aging when it was difficult to persuade the world that there were genes that specified life prolongation. I describe the situation in 1980 and briefly describe the background of early work on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and my role in the revolution in aging research that has occurred in the last 20 years.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309, USA. johnsont@colorado.edu
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology