Can We Learn From Centenarians' DNA? #longevity
8 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Researchers sequenced centenarians' DNA and found something surprising: 44 of them carried five or six genetic variants expected to cause disease, yet stayed healthy. Many centenarians die without prolonged illness and take no medications. One genetic variant, ApoE, typically leads to dementia by 60 and death by 80, but some centenarians escape that fate.
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44 persons
One in ten thousand ("Einer von zehntausend")
They claimed homozygosity for the ApoE genotype is likely to cause dementia by ~60 and death by ~80.










