Citation

Shklovskii BI. Theory Biosci. 2005; 123(4): 431-433.

Affiliation

William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA, shklovsk@physics.umn.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1016/j.thbio.2005.01.001

PMID

18202874

Abstract

The Gompertz law of dependence of human mortality rate on age is derived from a simple model of death as a result of an exponentially rare escape of abnormal cells from immunological response.

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