New study finds your genes may not influence your lifespan
Science Daily - 06-Nov-2018Family tree data suggests hereditary genes contributed to no more than 7% of a person's lifespan
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Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences
Graham Ruby is currently working as Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences. As a postdoc at the University of California at San Francisco, Graham wrote software (PRICE) for the discovery of novel viruses from metagenomic deep-sequencing of clinical specimens. As a graduate student at MIT, he analyzed deep-sequence data for the annotation and characterization of microRNA genes.
Graham’s lab applies quantitative genetic and demographic analyses to describe the aging process and discover its genetic foundations in humans and model organisms. The Ruby lab’s research activities include genetic association studies, deep phenotyping with the use of artificial intelligence and genome annotation using “-omics” data sets.
Graham was a Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California at San Francisco. He holds a PhD in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BA in Biology from Northwestern University.
Visit website: https://calicolabs.com/people/j-graham-ruby
See also: Calico - Combating aging and associated diseases. An Alphabet (Google) subsidiary.
Details last updated 10-Jul-2023
Family tree data suggests hereditary genes contributed to no more than 7% of a person's lifespan