Jorgensen MJ

ORCID: 0000-0002-0977-6425 · 2 papers in corpus

2025

Comparative lifespan and healthspan of nonhuman primate species common to biomedical research.

GeroScience ·doi:10.1007/s11357-024-01421-8

There is a critical need to generate age- and sex-specific survival curves to characterize chronological aging consistently across nonhuman primates (NHP) used in biomedical research. Sex-specific Kaplan-Meier survival curves were computed …

2016

Vitamin D heritability and effect of pregnancy status in Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) under conditions of modest and high dietary supplementation.

American journal of physical anthropology ·doi:10.1002/ajpa.22923

ObjectivesThe two objectives of the current study were to: 1) investigate the genetic contributions to variations in serum vitamin D concentrations under two dietary conditions (a standard monkey biscuit diet vs. a diet designed to model ty…