<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 3:20 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In the search for extending lifespan geneticists have been searching<br>
for genes that protect against the effects of ageing, but with little<br>
success so far.<br>
Another suggestion is that perhaps centenarians don't have anti-ageing<br>
genes, but do have disease-protecting genes. i.e. they live longer<br>
because they get fewer diseases.<br>
New research is pointing in this direction.<br>
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<<a href="http://time.com/4153835/live-longer-genetic-clues/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://time.com/4153835/live-longer-genetic-clues/</a>><br>
Quotes:<br>
How to Live to 100: Researchers Find New Genetic Clues<br>
Alice Park Dec. 17, 2015<br>
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In a new analysis, researchers explore whether people live longer<br>
because they avoid disease or because they possess some anti-aging<br>
secret.<br>
But in a paper published in PLOS Genetics, researchers led by Stuart<br>
Kim, professor of developmental biology and genetics at Stanford<br>
University, questions that dogma. He found that on the contrary,<br>
centenarians may have fewer of the genes that contribute to major<br>
chronic diseases. That doesn’t mean that people who live to their 100s<br>
also don’t possess some protective anti-aging genes as well, but Kim’s<br>
study shows that they don’t experience as much disease as people who<br>
are shorter-lived.<br>
<br>
Kim’s team shows that the way centenarians reach their second century<br>
may involve more than just being blessed with anti-aging genes. “We<br>
found that, at least in part, they live longer because they don’t get<br>
sick,” he says.<br>
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BillK<br>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">What I think is going to happen: epigenetic research will find that what your mother and father and even grandmothers and grandfathers ate, smoked, etc. will have turned on or off certain genes that affect the immune system and perhaps other things that affect aging. Isn't it kind of scary that what you do can affect your grandchildren? (before having children, of course) - (am currently reading Nessa Carey's 'The Epigenetics Revolution')<br></div><br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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