{"id":122359,"date":"2021-05-07T20:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/people-who-live-past-105-years-old-have-genes-that-stop-dna-damage"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:22:37","slug":"people-who-live-past-105-years-old-have-genes-that-stop-dna-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/people-who-live-past-105-years-old-have-genes-that-stop-dna-damage","title":{"rendered":"People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-who-live-past-105-years-old-have-genes-that-stop-dna-damage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People who reach a very old age may have their genes to thank. Genetic variants that help to prevent DNA mutations and repair any that do occur have been found in supercentenarians and semi-supercentenarians \u2013 people who reach the ages of 110 and 105, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDNA repair mechanisms are extremely efficient in these people,\u201d says Claudio Franceschi at the University of Bologna in Italy. \u201cIt is one of the most important basic mechanisms for extending lifespan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who reach a very old age may have their genes to thank. Genetic variants that help to prevent DNA mutations and repair any that do occur have been found in supercentenarians and semi-supercentenarians \u2013 people who reach the ages of 110 and 105, respectively. \u201cDNA repair mechanisms are extremely efficient in these people,\u201d says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122359","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}