{"id":10099,"date":"2026-01-29T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/human-longevity-inherited-new-study-published-in-science\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:02:27","slug":"human-longevity-inherited-new-study-published-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/human-longevity-inherited-new-study-published-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Genes influence human lifespan far more than thought, new study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Genes influence human lifespan far more than thought, new study suggests<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For researchers studying aging \u2014 and thinking about how to extend our lives \u2014 a key question has been how much our genes shape our lifespans.<\/p>\n<p>Past studies have arrived at a range of answers. Many researchers had coalesced around an estimate that roughly 20% to 25% of our lifespan was heritable, though <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30401766\/\">a 2018 paper <\/a>from researchers at Alphabet\u2019s longevity arm Calico Life Sciences put it below 10%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/29\/human-longevity-inherited-new-study-published-in-science\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Andrew Joseph<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/29\/human-longevity-inherited-new-study-published-in-science\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genes influence human lifespan far more than thought, new study suggests For researchers studying aging \u2014 and thinking about how to extend our lives \u2014 a key question has been how much our genes shape our lifespans. Past studies have arrived at a range of answers. Many researchers had coalesced around an estimate that roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2660,1428,858],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health","category-research","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}