LONGEVITY UPDATE: The Surprisingly Mundane Genetic ‘Secrets’ of Earth’s Oldest People. “While genomic research on the super-old is in its very early stages, what’s fascinating is what the researchers are not finding. These people’s genomes are fundamentally the same as other people’s. They are clearly very special, but not in ways that are obvious. . . . When you look at older and older ages, in the tradeoff between environment and genetics, the genetics play a bigger and bigger role.”