Family Tree of 400 Million People Shows Genetics has Limited Influence on Longevity

ENN
Nov 6, 2018, 11:27 am26 pts
Although long life tends to run in families, genetics has far less influence on life span than previously estimated, according to a new analysis published in GENETICS. Ruby et al. used a data set of over 400 million historical persons obtained from public pedigrees on Ancestry.com to estimate the heritability…

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