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PREDICTING how long you will live turns out to be as difficult as first thought. A published in Science last year that claimed a gene test could predict your odds of reaching 100 has been retracted following quality control measures by an independent lab.
According to an accompanying statement released by Science: 鈥淎lthough the authors remain confident about their findings, Science has concluded on the basis of peer-review that a paper built on the corrected data would not meet the journal鈥檚 standards for genome-wide association studies.鈥� The study鈥檚 authors now plan to find a home in another journal for a revised version of their paper.
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Geneticists contacted by New 杏吧原创 expressed little surprise at the news; the study first began attracting criticism within days of publication. 鈥淲hat happened at Science? Who peer-reviewed this?鈥� asks of the Public Health Genomics Foundation in Cambridge, UK.