someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only 0.1% of centenarians. Furthermore, only 2% of supercentenarians live to be 115.

2014-11-13: Polygenic Supercentenarians, meaning that there isn’t a smoking gun simple enough for our currently primitive understanding.

We found no significant evidence of enrichment for a single rare protein-altering variant or for a gene harboring different rare protein altering variants in supercentenarian compared to control genomes

2023-09-08: Occam’s razor says bad record keeping

the number of of extremely old people is positively correlated with poverty, shorter average life spans and illiteracy. All factors which are difficult to explain if we think these factors are causally related to health but which make sense if we think that the explanation is unreliable birth and death records. Supercentenarian birthdates also exhibit patterns such as age-heaping that are “strongly indicative of manufactured birth data.”