New study in Science suggests genetics might account for 50-55% of human lifespan, a significant shift from previous beliefs.

Putting aside the risk of an early grave by accident or injury, your genes may have a much greater impact on your lifespan ...

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50% by accounting for ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published ...

A large study published Jan. 29 in the journal Science suggests genetics could account for as much as 55% of a person’s lifespan. That’s far higher than earlier estimates, which ranged from 6% to 33%.

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA regions influence gene activity, shaping ...

Some say new research has "important consequences for ageing research", while others believe the study's findings are "not ...

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been masked. A genetic contribution of 55% aligns far more closely with what has ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...