“Longevity genes” determine life expectancy only 16%

Techno 4 March, 2018

2018-03-04 10:26

“Longevity genes” determine life expectancy only 16%
American and Israeli geneticists have made a record of genealogical tree that spans five centuries, and unites 13 million inhabitants of modern Europe, America, Australia and South Africa.

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American and Israeli geneticists have made a record of genealogical tree that spans five centuries, and unites 13 million inhabitants of modern Europe, America, Australia and South Africa. It is reported in the journal Science, reports Rus.Media.

Their common ancestor lived 65 generations ago.

Collect the giant Rodovid managed sites, dedicated to genealogy, where people looking for relatives and learn family history. Similar studies carried out genetic start-UPS, collect DNA customers.

Examining the dates of the lives of more than 86 million people, the researchers found that “longevity genes” determine life expectancy is only 16% vs. 25%, as previously thought.

On average, their speakers live five years longer than other people. It’s not so much the Smoking, for example, takes ten years of his life, said Yaniv Erlich of Columbia University in new York. According to him, the likelihood that genetic tests can predict when people will die, minimum.