World-Class Scientist, Thomas Perls, MD presents at Okinawa International Conference on Longevity (OICL)
A scientific team led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Louis M. Kunkel and Thomas Perls at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard University together with other scientists from Children's Hospital in Boston, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Rutgers University reported the results of a genome-wide (genome-scan) study of 308 long-lived people, including 137 siblings in the journal of the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.