It remains unclear as to the degree to which familial longevity is a matter of culture versus genetics. Studies of ever-larger genetic databases are finding that human life expectancy has a smaller genetic component than previously thought, while smaller studies have found very few gene variants broadly correlated with longevity, none of which have large effect sizes. Separately, it continues to be the case that large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi…
Familial Longevity is Accompanied by Increased Healthspan
It remains unclear as to the degree to which familial longevity is a matter of culture versus genetics. Studies of ever-larger genetic databases are finding that human life expectancy has a smaller genetic component than previously thought, while smaller studies have found very few gene variants broadly correlated with longevity, none of which have large effect sizes. Separately, it continues to be the case that large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi…