Sentence examples for role in longevity from inspiring English sources

Genes do play a role in longevity.

Finch and Kirkwood's review of aging showed decisively (if in a roundworm) that luck can play a role in longevity, even when practically all else is equal.

As the authors note, education levels have long appeared to play a role in longevity: one study found that people who did not graduate from high school lived an average of nine years less than graduates.

Dr. Perls wrote that while other factors have been identified as playing a role in longevity -- like sex, income, physical activity and race -- the advantage they confer diminishes with age.

If genes play the kind of direct role in longevity that these figures suggest, Dr. Perls wrote, it is likely that two kinds of effects are present: an absence of genes creating vulnerability to diseases of aging, like Alzheimer's and heart disease, and genes that slow the aging process at a basic level.

SirT1 protein has received considerable attention for its potential role in longevity.

Of course genetics and other factors, including lifestyle, also play large roles in longevity and whether a person will survive into their 90s and older.

There is growing evidence that fat metabolism and lipid-signaling might play important roles in longevity (Lapierre & Hansen, 2012).

Furthermore, RNAi (RNA interference) of Sod2 in Drosophila produced the same reduced longevity response [ 34] suggesting that both SOD1 and SOD2 play key roles in longevity.

It is important to identify such substrates of NDG-4 and determine if they play conserved roles in longevity in other organisms.

While a series of genes have been identified as playing important roles in longevity induced by different DR methods, the comparison of the importance of these genes in diverse DR regimens has not been performed.