23andMe contributes to longevity GWAS controversy [Genetic Future]

As an addendum to my previous post on the controversial “longevity genes” study, you should go and check this out . It’s a post on the blog of personal genomics company 23andMe , and it’s a pretty impressive piece of scientific dissection of the longevity GWAS paper – in addition to detailing a variety of methodological problems with the study, the authors actually used the 23andMe database to …