Tracking down a likely study is fairly trivial. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120119761/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://www3.interscience.wiley.

Tracking down a likely study is fairly trivial. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120119761/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120119761/abstrac... Unfortunately it's behind a paywall. This is somewhat outside my field but I do have institutional access. Based on my limited understanding of the area I would take issue with the quote. Although the data supports the statement that few people with the bad version lived beyond 85 (survival function was 0.1 at 75 and dropped to zero at about 87) it doesn't support the statement that people with the good version are likely to live to 100 (survival function was 0.75 at 75, 0.35 at 87 but still drops to zero at 102