By Bryan A. Wolf, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and Director of the Research Institute
I always look toward the new year with great optimism and hope, to the promise and potential it brings, and to the experiences that will shape us individually, professionally, and organizationally.
Dr. Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital, led the study, which is the first to look at copy variation numbers in children that may be linked with human lifespan. Several gene variants can influence a person's potential lifespan by either raising the probability of developing a disease or by providing protection from disease, according to new
