The World Health Network - Long life tied to 3 genes:
"Only one in 10,000 people will celebrate a century of life, and New York scientists have identified three genes that can help achieve that age.
Having any one of these genes can confer a longer and healthier life.
'People with exceptionally long lives offer us a shortcut in understanding diseases and what prevents them,' said Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. He studied 300 Ashkenazi Jews between 95 and 108 years old and their children, many of whom themselves have lived beyond the average life span - 77.6 years."
