Huer-gatherer genes, possibly domina during the last Ice Age, may have coributed to the longer lifespans of today’s Italians.
According to RCO News Agency, Ceenarian Italians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancie huer-gatherers than the general population, according to a new study. A finding that can lead to a better understanding of the aging process.
According to the Independe, previous studies have shown that “good genes” inherited from ancestors, along with other factors such as environme and daily habits, coribute to people’s longevity.
While previous studies have shown that Italy has one of the highest statistics of ceenarians in the world, the exact reasons for this phenomenon are still unclear. To understand this, scieists analyzed the genomes of more than 300 ceenarians and nearly 700 healthy adults with an average age of about 50 years.
The researchers then compared the DNA of these people with the ancie genomes of the four groups that make up the modern population of Italy. These groups included the descendas of the Western Huer-Gatherers, who were the first inhabitas of Europe after the Ice Age, as well as the Neolithic farmers of Anatolia, the nomadic groups of the Bronze Age, and the ancie groups of Iran and the Caucasus.
Scieists found that people who reached the age of 100 had, on average, more Western huer-gatherer (WHG) DNA than the average person.
While the Italians examined in this study carried a mixture of DNA from all four ancie groups, only the genetic material from Western huer-gatherers was found to be associated with longevity.
The study showed that with every small increase in the amou of huer-gatherer DNA, a person’s chance of living to be a ceenarian increases by 38%. According to this study, women who had a greater share of this ancie DNA showed more than twice the chance of reaching 100 years of age than men.
Researchers think that these genes probably gained superiority during the last ice age; When our ancestors had to adapt to survive in very harsh conditions with limited food resources.
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