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Secret of healthy life?
- Stop obsessing about what you eat or drink as the secret of a long and healthy life may actually lie in your genes, scientists have suggested after mapping the entire DNA sequence
- Stop obsessing about what you eat or drink as the secret of a long and healthy life may actually lie in your genes, scientists have suggested after mapping the entire DNA sequence of the world's oldest woman and discovering that her brain showed no sign of dementia.
- The woman, a Dutch, was 115 when she died of a stomach tumour in 2005.
- The findings have led researchers to believe that it was perhaps her genes that protected her against conditions relating to ageing.
- The team behind the study did not disclose the identity of the woman describing her only as “W115'' and the oldest person to have her genes mapped.
