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Misclassification of heritable mortality undermines estimates of intrinsic life span heritability
2026-02-27
genetic and genomic medicine
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In a recent article in Science, Shenhar et al. report that human life span heritability reaches [~]55% after removing "extrinsic" mortality, roughly seven-fold higher than recent large pedigree estimates. This conclusion rests on classifying deaths from infections and accidents as environmental noise independent of genetics. This premise is biologically untenable: susceptibility to severe infection is substantially heritable, with adoptee studies showing relative risks exceeding 5 for infection ...
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