{"id":108895,"date":"2020-06-19T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-rate-we-acquire-genetic-mutations-could-help-predict-lifespan-fertility"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:43:19","slug":"the-rate-we-acquire-genetic-mutations-could-help-predict-lifespan-fertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-rate-we-acquire-genetic-mutations-could-help-predict-lifespan-fertility","title":{"rendered":"The rate we acquire genetic mutations could help predict lifespan, fertility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-rate-we-acquire-genetic-mutations-could-help-predict-lifespan-fertility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Differences in the rate that genetic mutations accumulate in healthy young adults could help predict remaining lifespan in both sexes and the remaining years of fertility in women, according to University of Utah Health scientists. Their study, believed to be the first of its kind, found that young adults who acquired fewer mutations over time lived about five years longer than those who acquired them more rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say the discovery could eventually lead to the development of interventions to slow the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/aging+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aging process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the results from this small study are validated by other independent research, it would have tremendous implications,\u201d says Lynn B. Jorde, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Human Genetics at U of U Health and a co-author of the study. \u201cIt would mean that we could possibly find ways to fix ourselves and live longer and better lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Differences in the rate that genetic mutations accumulate in healthy young adults could help predict remaining lifespan in both sexes and the remaining years of fertility in women, according to University of Utah Health scientists. Their study, believed to be the first of its kind, found that young adults who acquired fewer mutations over time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}