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SEARCH FOR PREDICTORS OF EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN LONGEVITY: USING COMPUTERIZED GENEALOGIES AND INTERNET RESOURCES FOR HUMAN LONGEVITY STUDIES
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@MISC{Gavrilova_searchfor,
author = {Natalia S. Gavrilova and Leonid A. Gavrilov},
title = {SEARCH FOR PREDICTORS OF EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN LONGEVITY: USING COMPUTERIZED GENEALOGIES AND INTERNET RESOURCES FOR HUMAN LONGEVITY STUDIES},
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}
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Abstract
This paper explores new opportunities provided by the ongoing revolution in information technology, computer science, and Internet expansion for studies of exceptional human longevity. To this aim, the detailed family data for 991 alleged centenarians born between 1875 and 1899 in the United States were extracted from publicly available computerized family histories of 75 million individuals available at the Rootsweb site. To validate the age of the centenarians, these records were linked first to the Social Security Administration Death Master File records (for death date validation) and then to the records of the U.S. censuses for 1900, 1910, and 1920 (for birth date validation). The results of this cross-validation study demonstrated that computerized genealogies may serve as a useful starting point for developing a reliable family-linked scientific database on exceptional human longevity. The resulting database on centenarians with validated ages was used in the study of the predictors of exceptional human longevity, including familial factors and early-life living conditions. The comparison of households where children (future centenarians) were raised (using data obtained through linkage of genealogies to early U.S. censuses) with control households drawn from
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