The centenarian genome is a key resource in identifying longevity genes

百岁老人基因组是辨识寿命基因的关键来源

It's not the first time, however, that we've written about a centenarian getting tattooed.

无论如何这也不是第一次我们写百岁老人纹身的故事了。

Our most recently deceased centenarian in Okinawa caught a cold and died in her sleep.

在冲绳我们最近过世的百岁老人得了感冒后在睡眠中去世了。

I have never met a healthy person or centenarian that lived a physically inactive life.

我从没遇到过一个不积极锻炼的健康人或者百岁老人。

Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.

这时一种阴森森的变态使这个百岁老人象年轻人一样竖直了身子。

The bones of another would-be centenarian, it turned out, were being stored in her son's backpack.

而另一具在其儿子的背包里发现的尸骨也可能是一位百岁老人的。

That someone from that era is alive - and blogging as the "Centenarian Scholar" - seems unbelievable.

经历过那个时代的人还健在，并还有着百岁学者之称，这实在有些不可思议。

They also predicted using genetics alone many of those among study participants would be a centenarian.

仅从遗传学上分析，他们推测研究中的被试者们有很多会成为百岁人。

"Dying of old age involves total systems failure, " says Craig Willcox of the Okinawa Centenarian Study in Japan.

日本冲绳百岁老人研究的Craig Willcox说：“老人过世涉及到整个系统的衰竭。

The 'centenarian' version raises levels of 'good' cholesterol, cutting the risk of heart disease and, it appears, dementia.

“百岁基因”提升了有益胆固醇的含量标准，降低了心脏病的发病几率，看起来也能降低痴呆的威胁。

She has a better chance than most of becoming a centenarian because Okinawa is one of the world's hotspots for longevity.

她有着成为百岁老寿星得天独厚的机会，这是多数成为百岁老寿星的人无法比拟的，因为冲绳岛是世界上长寿地区之一。

These models yielded 150 variants that could be used to predict, with 77% accuracy, the likelihood of becoming a centenarian.

这些模型产生出150个变体，它们能够用于预测成为百岁老人的可能性，准确率达到77%。

According to the Okinawa Centenarian Study, centenarian ratios may be the world’s highest at approximately 50 per 100, 000 people.

冲绳百岁老人研究显示，这里百岁老人所占的比例可能位居世界首位，约为万分之五。

He'd recently celebrated his 100th birthday in a care home called Ferendune Court, and I was excited to meet my first centenarian.

他最近刚在Ferendune Court护理中心庆祝完百岁生日，我很兴奋，这是我首次见到的百岁老人。

Among the world's population of those who are over 100 years old, 85 percent are women, according to the New England Centenarian Study.

根据新英格兰百岁老人的一个研究，在世界人口中超过100岁的人，有85%是女人。

"Centenarians are a model of aging well," says Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian study at Boston Medical Center and an author of the study.

“百岁老人是一个很好的老化模型”托马斯·帕尔，波士顿医疗中心的新英格兰百岁老人研究的主任，也是研究报告的作者之一。

An update on the Guinness World Records website said Valentim, "the first Brazilian super-centenarian to hold the title, " died at the age of 114 years, 347 days.

吉尼斯世界纪录网站的最新信息记录：瓦伦汀是世界上第一个年龄最大的八十人。 她活了114年347天。

Many people in the New England Centenarian Study experienced a century free of cancer or heart disease despite smoking as many as 60 cigarettes a day for 50 years.

在新英格兰百岁老人研究中许多人即使50年中每天都抽60支之多的香烟，仍在一个世纪中未罹患上癌症或心脏病。

His record throw of 12.75 metres, at the Japan Masters Athletics championship in June, shattered the world centenarian javelin record formerly held by an American.

他在六月份的日本田径大师赛中，掷出12.75米的成绩，打破了之前由美国人创造的标枪百岁组世界纪录。

The proportion of centenarian in Bama region is 308 millionths of the total population, which is far more than the 75 millionths of the world's longevity criteria.

广西巴马地区的百岁老人占当地总人口的比例为百万分之308，远远超出世界长寿之乡百万分之75的标准值。

Women accounted for an overwhelming 85 percent of the centenarian population at 24,245, nearly six times more than the number of men, the ministry said in a report.

据厚生劳动省的一份报告显示，百岁老人中的女性老人占大多数，为85％，其总人数达到24245人，是百岁男性老人的近6倍之多。

Does a centenarian get any secret to be long-lived? Surveys demonstrated that the majority of them lead a very quite regular life, only the minority subsist naturally.

百岁老人长寿有没有秘决？调查表明：多数百岁老人的生活非常有规律，只有少数老人的日常生活是顺其自然的。

women better than men, live longer Among the world's population of those who are over 100 years old, 85 percent are women, according to the New England Centenarian Study.

根据新英格兰百岁老人的一个研究，在世界人口中超过100岁的人，有85%是女人。

This makes the "centenarian genome" a key resource for identifying "longevity genes", an invaluable step in understanding the physiological processes underlying long lives.

这使得“百岁老人基因组”成为辨识“寿命基因”关键来源，而辨识“寿命基因”是解读长寿之下的生理进程价值非凡的一步。

"For all the major health hazards, women take better care of themselves," says Craig Willcox of Okinawa International University in Japan, who works on the Okinawa Centenarian Study.

在冲绳百岁老人研究从事研究工作的，日本冲绳国际大学的Craig Willcox说：“就所有主要的健康危害而言，女性自我会进行很好的保护。”

To learn more about the genetic underpinnings of this "exceptional longevity", Perls and his colleagues have been tracking 800 centenarians enrolled in the New England Centenarian Study.

为研究更多的关于例外长寿的基因基础理论，波尔斯和他的同事们追踪调查了参加新英格兰百岁老人研究的800名百岁老人。