Who wants to live forever? The rights genes will help

Variants of the FOXO3A gene are common in people who live past 100. If you want to live a long, healthy life these are handy genes to have.

PNAS: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/8/2700.full.pdf+html

In English

The link is to a scientific paper in PNAS. It is not that technical, but just in case it roughly means the following:

Variants of the FOXO3A gene are common in people who live past 100.  Researchers from Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, studied hundreds of people in their 60s through to those more than 100 and found that certain variations of the FOXO3A gene  were common in 90 year olds, and even more common in 100 year olds.

It backs up similar studies suggesting that these gene variants are global in their link to longevity.  The big picture implications are relevant to genetic treatments that might help us crack the century and do it with all our physical and mental faculties intact – which opens up all sorts of ethical questions.