Caltech Researchers Find Longevity-Linked Mutation

CBNobi writes "A study headed by researchers at CalTech have found a genetic mutation occuring in mitochondrial DNA that may signify longevity. The researchers found that the particular mutation occurred in 17% of centenarians, but only 3.7% of younger individuals. They also found the mutations in identical twins, which is a possible sign of inheritance. Researchers believe the mutation controls factors in DNA replication. The report information is available in a press release by CalTech, and the research abstract is also available."

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Oh that

[orthogonal]

It's the mutation to mitochondrion/types.h that typedefs time_t to a 64 bit int.

Then you can easily live past 2038.

(Note: this requires a recent version of gcc-dna.)