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Gene Mutation Key To Ecuador Group’s Health

Longo began studying these people after an endocrinologist named Jaime Guevara-Aguirre observed that they didn’t seem to get diseases associated with aging, including diabetes and cancer.

Longo, Guevara-Aguirre and other scientists were able to confirm that observation when they studied more than two decades of medical records on 99 people with Laron syndrome.

“None of them ever developed diabetes,” Long says. “And only one got cancer.”