title: The Longevity Consortium: Harnessing diverse approaches to understand the genetic basis of human longevity and healthy aging. An introduction to a series of articles.
abstract: The Longevity Consortium is a multi-investigator, multi-institutional research group focused on identifying the genetic variants that regulate human lifespan and healthy aging. The text that follows is an introduction to a series of seven articles prepared by Consortium investigators that represent a profile of planned and ongoing research and up-to-date reviews of topics of major interest to biogerontologists and others scientists and clinicians interested in ageing research.
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D012106:Research