If you would live long, choose your parents well

Why do we age?

2000 • 1,696 citations

Extended Life-Span and Stress Resistance in the Drosophila Mutant methuselah

1998 • 815 citations

The heritability of human longevity: A population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900

1996 • 813 citations

Human longevity at the cost of reproductive success

1998 • 613 citations

Genetics of Aging

1997 • 493 citations

Extended Life-Span Conferred by Cotransporter Gene Mutations in Drosophila

2000 • 488 citations

Longevity Is Moderately Heritable in a Sample of Danish Twins Born 1870-1880

1993 • 359 citations

Chance, development, and aging

2001 • 274 citations

Chance, development, and aging

2000 • 261 citations

Inheritance of human longevity in Iceland

2000 • 234 citations

The Effect of Genetic Factors for Longevity: A Comparison of Identical and Fraternal Twins in the Swedish Twin Registry

1998 • 228 citations

Prospects for the genetics of human longevity

1993 • 89 citations

Invertebrate gerontology: The age mutations of Caenorhabditis elegans

1996 • 73 citations

Evolution, mutations, and human longevity: European royal and noble families.

1998 • 73 citations

The familial component in longevity. A study of offspring of nonagenarians. II. Preliminary analysis of the completed study.

1974 • 64 citations

Familial transmission of longevity

1990 • 59 citations

Familial correlations of longevity: An isolate‐based study

1978 • 53 citations

Inheritance of longevity evinces no secular trend among members of six New England families born 1650–1874

1991 • 49 citations

Evidence of sex–linked effects on the inheritance of human longevity: a population–based study in the Valserine valley (French Jura), 18–20th centuries

2000 • 49 citations

Human Longevity: Nature vs. Nurture—Fact or Fiction

1999 • 28 citations

Maternal and Paternal Lines of Familial Longevity

2001 • 24 citations

Longevity — does family size matter?

1999 • 15 citations