How Well Does the Family Longevity Selection Score Work: A Validation Test Using the Utah Population Database

• Egile Nagusiak: Liubov S. Arbeeva (Egilea), Heidi A. Hanson (Egilea), Konstantin G. Arbeev (Egilea), Alexander M. Kulminski (Egilea), Eric Stallard (Egilea), Svetlana V. Ukraintseva (Egilea), Deqing Wu (Egilea), Robert M. Boudreau (Egilea), Michael A. Province (Egilea), Ken R. Smith (Egilea), Anatoliy I. Yashin (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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The Family Longevity Selection Score (FLoSS) was used to select families for the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) but has never been validated in other populations. The goal of this paper is to validate how well the FLoSS-based selection procedure works in an independent dataset. In this paper, we comp...