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(JTA) — Louise Levy, who was the oldest living resident of New York State and a participant in a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews, died July 17 in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was 112. “Throughout her long life, which spanned two global pandemics, she remained a lady in every sense of the word,” her family […]
Levy was the oldest living resident of New York State and one of hundreds of Jews 95 and older recruited in 1998 for a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews
The Longevity Genes Project aims to explore the “good” genes that allow people to live well into the triple digits.
She was one of hundreds of people, all of them Ashkenazi Jews, whose good health and cognitive ability at extreme old age were the subject of genetic research.
(JTA) — Louise Levy, who was the oldest living resident of New York State and a participant in a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews, died July 17 in Greenwich,