They identified genetic markers that are "most different" between centenarians and randomly selected individuals.
France is expected to have 150, 000 centenarians by 2050 compared with only 200 in 1950.
In other words, the number of centenarians is doubling once every 11 or 12 years.
Her Mediterranean island home is known for the longevity of its residents, claiming to have 370 centenarians.
Siblings of centenarians are up to 20 times as likely to live to age 100 than their peers.
By this type of reckoning, the future monarch will be spending their entire day scribbling letters to centenarians.
About 24% of the general adult population of France possesses an E-4, but only 10% of French centenarians do.
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"We tested our model in an independent set of centenarians and achieved an accuracy of 77%, " explained Professor Sebastiani.
Some women in Dr Perls's sample were still alive (ie, they were centenarians) when the research was carried out.
It is based on the largest study of centenarians in the world.
Even 100 years ago, a handful of people lived to be centenarians.
First, to discover what, genetically speaking, makes centenarians different from other people.
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There will be 1.3m American centenarians by 2040, according to present projections.
But that's far from universal, said Dr. Thomas Perls, an expert on aging at Boston University and director of the New England Centenarians Study.
Despite this, studies focusing entirely on centenarians are still relatively uncommon.
Future centenarians would be wise to find alternative ways of saving.
Since then, they have scanned the genomes of 1, 000 centenarians.
One longevity gene, present in 24% of these centenarians (including Tauber), compared with 8% among younger people, may help stave off cardiovascular disease by making the body more efficient at removing cholesterol.
"It is pure science fiction to say we can change the rate of aging in an organism as complex as ours, " argues Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University Medical Center who studies centenarians.
As it happens, in the week that Jeanne Calment died, 44% of Germans who took part in a survey said they did not want to live beyond 80, and only 18% hoped to be centenarians.
He has plotted the rate of increase in hundredth birthdays in Britain between 1910 and 1996, taking into account variations in the birthrate, and found that until 1946 the number of centenarians increased at a rate of just 1% per year.
Once factors such as spinsterhood and early hysterectomy were eliminated from the statistics, it became clear that the centenarians were three times more likely to have given birth to at least one child in their 40s than those who had then gone on to live only an average lifespan.
In a recent paper in The Lancet, Masashi Tanaka and his colleagues at the Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, in Japan, reported that they had found a gene which is carried by a majority of Japanese centenarians, but by less than half of the rest of the Japanese population, suggesting that it could play an important role in a healthy old age.
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