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Heritability of human lifespan is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed
Ben Shenhar, Glen Pridham, Thaís Lopes De Oliveira…·Uri S. Alon
This paper estimates that the heritability of human lifespan is about 50% when accounting for extrinsic factors and cutoff age effects, challenging the consensus that genetics has a minor role in lifespan.
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