What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, ...
New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...
A new analysis suggests that genes play a much larger role in human longevity than previously believed. But lifestyle factors ...
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A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science ...
About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...
A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.
How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.
The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been masked. A genetic contribution of 55% aligns far more closely with what has ...
The genes you inherit play a bigger role in determining your lifespan than previously thought, according to a new study.