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Being short, female and Ashkenazi could lead to a long life, according to Bloomberg. A study of 384 Ashkenazi Jews who lived to at least 95, conducted by Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, identified two genes that appear to help confer long life in certain forms.
Carriers of the variant genes have two things in common: they seem more likely to live to 100 and more likely to be short, a trait they share with their daughters.
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