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Going Long
Why do some people live so long? Is it nature? Nurture? A complex mix of both? Thomas Perls, a School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and geriatrics, is hoping to find the answer. In 1994, he launched the New England Centenarian Study and [...]started enrolling long-lived individuals from greater Boston. His team hopes that whatever nature-nurture mix is protecting centenarians could one day be harnessed for drug development, gene therapy, and behavioral interventions to keep the rest of us healthier longer, even if we don't live to 100. Listen to 96 year-old Agnes Buckley talk about how she stays healthy.
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Longevity Linked to Genes Live Chat
BU researchers believe that many of those who live a very long life (into their late 90s) have some genetic variances to thank for the extra years. The scientists, lead by Paola Sebastiani at the School of Public Health and Thomas Perls at the School [...]of Medicine, have found 150 genetic markers that predict with 77 percent accuracy whether people will live extremely long lives, which they defined as late 90s or older. In the United States, where the average life expectancy is 78, only one in 6,000 people make it to 100.
Read the story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/node/11210
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