Will you live to 100? Last year, scientists published a study proposing a "genetic signature" that could help answer that question. But they retracted the paper when critics discovered errors that invalidated the results. Now the team is back with a revamped study that proposes a different signature; it's less predictive in most people but, they say, it still underscores that your chance of living a very long life has a powerful genetic component. For example my great grandma died at age 94 so i might die at that age too.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Long Life Is Still in Your Genes
Will you live to 100? Last year, scientists published a study proposing a "genetic signature" that could help answer that question. But they retracted the paper when critics discovered errors that invalidated the results. Now the team is back with a revamped study that proposes a different signature; it's less predictive in most people but, they say, it still underscores that your chance of living a very long life has a powerful genetic component. For example my great grandma died at age 94 so i might die at that age too.
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