(Mako-Hebrew-7Mar2018) MyHeritage, an Israeli-owned company that deals in the construction of family trees and DNA testing, has discovered there is no such thing as a "longevity gene." The company has composed the world's largest family tree, with around 13 million members. Prof. Yaniv Ehrlich explained, "We can learn a lot of things from data from the past....We discovered that genes have less of an influence on longevity than we thought. It's not a hereditary trait, as previously believed." "Genetics may determine on average about five years of our lives, but cigarettes, from example, take off on average ten years....We can't rely on our parents' life expectancy."
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