%0 Journal Article
%T Survival advantage of siblings and spouses of centenarians in 20th-century Quebec
%A Val¨Śrie Jarry
%A Alain Gagnon
%A Robert Bourbeau
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2012
%I Canadian Population Society
%X Longevity runs in families, either through genetic or environmental influences. Using Quebec civil registration and historical Canadiancensuses, we compared the longevity of siblings and spouses of 806 centenarians to a group of controls, all born in Quebec at the turnof the 20th century. Our results show that siblings of centenarians, who share half of their genes and a common childhood environment,lived 3¨C4 years longer than their birth cohort. However, husbands and wives of centenarians lived 4 and 2.5 years longer than theircounterparts of the same sex, respectively, suggesting that longevity is also modulated by shared environment in adulthood.
%K longevity
%K mortality
%K centenarians
%K siblings.
%U http://www.canpopsoc.ca/CanPopSoc/assets/File/publications/journal/2012/CSPv39n3-4p67.pdf