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.