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. 2017 Jul 18;73(11):1439–1447. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glx124

Table 1.

Characteristics of Subjects in the LLFS, NECS, SICS, and LGP

Study Cases (median age, range) Controls* (median age, range)
SICS 126 (99, 96–108) 540 (41, 18–70)
LLFS 550 (100, 96–111) 1,210 (73, 43–95) + 1,000 Illumina controls (35, 0–75)
LGP 308 (102, 96–113) 601 (75, 43–95)
NECS 1,088 (104, 96–119) 315 (81, 55–95) + 2,593 Illumina controls (35, 0–75)
Total 2,072 6,194

Note: LGP = Longevity Genes Project; LLFS = Long Life Family Study; NECS = New England Centenarian Study; SICS = Southern Italian Centenarian Study.

*Controls are study-specific controls and/or publically available controls provided by Illumina. Age for the Illumina controls is age at blood draw, though given the rarity of survival to or beyond the oldest 1 percentile of survival, we anticipated that few if any of the controls attained such survival.