Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity

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There some studies, but links are not direct or easy to...

User makkerker, in the Circlejerk NYC subreddit, 22 Dec 2025

There some studies, but links are not direct or easy to measure https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1605334113

Even if you stuck just to the genes we know about today,...

User DPTrumann, in the Worldbuilding - Explore Every Impossibility subreddit, 17 Feb 2017

Even if you stuck just to the genes we know about today, there's quite a bit to work…

Individuals with more education tend to live longer, and an international team of scientists have found that this can be partially explained by an underlying, quantifiable, genetic propensity, using data from three cohort studies (including >130,000 participants).

User autotldr, in the autotldr subreddit, 12 Nov 2016

Individuals with more education tend to live longer, and an international team of scientists have found that this can be partially explained by an underlying, quantifiable, genetic propensity, using data from three cohort studies (including >130,000 participants).

User mvea, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 12 Nov 2016

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