{"id":91693,"date":"2019-06-06T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-identify-gene-that-helps-people-live-to-a-ripe-old-age"},"modified":"2019-06-06T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:43:19","slug":"scientists-identify-gene-that-helps-people-live-to-a-ripe-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-identify-gene-that-helps-people-live-to-a-ripe-old-age","title":{"rendered":"Scientists identify gene that helps people live to a ripe old age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-gene-that-helps-people-live-to-a-ripe-old-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Amsterdam\u2019s UMC have identified a rare gene that halves people\u2019s chances of developing dementia in old age.<\/p>\n<p>People with the genetic variant, which occurs in around 1% of the population, are also more likely to live longer. <a href=\"https:\/\/nos.nl\/artikel\/2286526-gen-ontdekt-voor-langer-leven-zonder-dementie-resultaten-spectaculair.html\">The researchers studied 16 different sample populations<\/a> in Europe and North America, including a number of people over the age of 100, for the study published in the journal Acta Neuropathologica.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery could potentially be used to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other degenerative illnesses such as frontotemporal and Lewy body dementia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/2019\/05\/scientists-identify-gene-that-helps-people-live-to-a-ripe-old-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Amsterdam\u2019s UMC have identified a rare gene that halves people\u2019s chances of developing dementia in old age. People with the genetic variant, which occurs in around 1% of the population, are also more likely to live longer. The researchers studied 16 different sample populations in Europe and North America, including a number of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}