Is There a Genetic Contribution to Human Longevity?

Little of the variance in human longevity is driven by the age of your parents. If you've got a parent or a sibling who makes it to 100, you've got about a ten times greater chance than some one in the rest of the population are doing the same. We often talk about people dying of old age. But i think this is a bit of a myth that's been a perpetuated cause for many, many years. This was actually a perfectly legitimate thing to write on a death certificate as a doctor. Yes, some one got to 80 and they just died in their sleep. They wouldn't bother investigating exactly what had killed them. And so ultimately everyone does die of some specific