Longevity Gene Common Among People Living...
aim1
03 Feb 2009
http://www.scienceda...90203081624.htm
ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2009) — A variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond – moreover, this appears to be true worldwide. A research group in the Faculty of Medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU) has now confirmed this assumption by comparing DNA samples taken from 388 German centenarians with those from 731 younger people. The results of the study appear this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ("PNAS").
More at link.
Mind
26 Apr 2009
Seems FOXO3A has come up in some other discussions in the forums, and this seems to be a very important finding. Just wondering if anyone was aware of a thread where we could merge this post.
