Developmental origins of exceptional health and survival: A four-generation family cohort study

Authors

• Matthew Thomas Keys, University of Southern Denmark
• Søren Netra, University of Southern Denmark
• Dorthe Almind Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark
• Pernille Stemann Larsen, University of Southern Denmark
• Alexander Kulminski, Duke University
• Mary F Feitosa, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Mary Wojczynski, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Michael Province, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Kaare Christensen, University of Southern Denmark

Journal

Nature Communications

Publication Date

5-9-2026

Volume

17

Issue

1

First Page

6279

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1038/s41467-026-72433-5

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Keys, M.T., Netra, S., Pedersen, D.A. et al. Developmental origins of exceptional health and survival: a four-generation family cohort study. Nat Commun 17, 6279 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72433-5 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Keys, Matthew Thomas; Netra, Søren; Pedersen, Dorthe Almind; Larsen, Pernille Stemann; Kulminski, Alexander; Feitosa, Mary F; Wojczynski, Mary; Province, Michael; and Christensen, Kaare, "Developmental origins of exceptional health and survival: A four-generation family cohort study." Nature Communications. 17, 1. 6279 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7280

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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