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Public Health Minute: The Genetics of Exceptional Longevity
While environment and family history are factors in healthy aging, genetic variants play a critical and complex role in conferring exceptional longevity, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public [...]Health and Medicine and the Boston Medical Center.
In a study released July 1 online by the journal Science, the research team identified a group of genetic variants that can predict exceptional longevity in humans with 77 percent accuracy -- a breakthrough in understanding the role of genes in determining human lifespan.
Listen to Paola Sebastiani, professor of biostatistics at BU School of Public Health, and Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine at the BU School of Medicine and a geriatrician at Boston Medical Center, talk about their research.
To learn more about this study, visit http://sph.bu.edu/longevity.
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Going Long
Why do some people live so long? Is it nature? Nurture? A complex mix of both? Thomas Perls, a School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and geriatrics, is hoping to find the answer. In 1994, he launched the New England Centenarian Study and [...]started enrolling long-lived individuals from greater Boston. His team hopes that whatever nature-nurture mix is protecting centenarians could one day be harnessed for drug development, gene therapy, and behavioral interventions to keep the rest of us healthier longer, even if we don't live to 100. Listen to 96 year-old Agnes Buckley talk about how she stays healthy.
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