根据一项对4亿多人的家庭系谱的新分析，遗传学对寿命的影响远小于先前所认为的那样。结果表明，寿命的遗传力远低于过去的估计。这项研究发表在《遗传学》杂志上，该杂志是美国遗传学协会的杂志。

Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181106104247.htm

1. J. Graham Ruby, Kevin M. Wright, Kristin A. Rand, Amir Kermany, Keith Noto, Don Curtis, Neal Varner, Daniel Garrigan, Dmitri Slinkov, Ilya Dorfman, Julie M. Granka, Jake Byrnes, Natalie Myres, Catherine Ball. Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity Are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating. Genetics, 2018; 210 (3): 1109 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301613