In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...
Earlier studies have estimated that life span may be 15-33 per cent heritable across varied populations, with a typical range of 20-25 per cent.
Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...
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Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half to the environment
A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...
An analysis of twin cohort data suggests that human life span is far more heritable than previously believed. The findings of the analysis show that ...
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