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- Heritability of Human Longevity Substantially Inflated Due to Assortative Mating http://www.genetics.org/content/210/3/1109 2 comments
- Statistical analysis of 400M people (family tree registrees of primarily Americans of European descent) suggests heritability of life span is below past estimates - seems less correlated with genetics than expected (previous results skewed by humans tendency to pick partners with similar traits) http://www.genetics.org/content/210/3/1109 3 comments science