India's Avesthagen has inked a deal to use Affymetrix's microarray technology in a genetic study involving 60,000 Parsi. The Avestagenome Project is studying the genetic foundation behind longevity. Almost a third of the Parsi population lives beyond the age of 60, compared to seven percent of the country's entire population.
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