作者: Jack E. Riggs
DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(94)01505-G
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摘要: Increasing multiple myeloma incidence and mortality among the elderly in industrialized nations has been attributed to associated environmental carcinogens. Age-specific rates United States from 1968 1989 were analyzed using Strehler-Mildvan modification of Gompertz relationship between aging mortality. The results suggest that worsening influences are not responsible for increasing elderly. Differential survival, a concept originally popularized by Charles Darwin, its effect upon surviving gene pool an population is alternative explanation