title: Biological Aging and Population Structure of Midwest Mennonites
abstract: Abstract In 1980, a study was initiated on the genetics of biological aging and the population structure of Mennonite populations (Anabaptist religious isolate) of the Midwestern United States. The National Institute of Aging–supported study sampled three Mennonite communities, Goessel, Meridian, and Henderson, with a total sample of 1,252 volunteers. Populations from Goessel, Kansas, and Henderson, Nebraska, are the descendants of 191 families that migrated from Crimea, Russia, in 1874. The sec