Do your genes dictate how your lifestyle choices impact ageing? (IMAGE)

Adelaide University

Do your genes dictate how your lifestyle choices impact ageing?

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Lifestyle-behavioural factors and socioeconomic status play an important role in shaping healthy ageing, but their effects may differ depending on your DNA.

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Melkamu Bedimo Beyene

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