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Summary of patients’ characteristics (credit: Paola Sebastiani et al./Front. Gene.)
A team of researchers has analyzed the complete genomic sequences of male and female supercentenarians, both over 114 years old.
Surprisingly, the researchers showed that the DNA sequences are largely comparable to existing non-supercentenarian genomes, and the two individuals do not appear to carry most of the well-established human longevity-enabling variants already reported in the literature./.../
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