Study of exceptionally healthy old people fails to trace their well-being to specific genes

MIT Technology Review

Weekend Reads: Nonie Hickle is 91. She ought to have cardiovascular disease, cancer, or at least gray hair. Yet she doesn’t have any of those things. Why not? The answer remains elusive despite one of the largest genetic studies to date of exceptionally healthy old people.
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Study of exceptionally healthy old people fails to trace their well-being to specific genes.

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