Irving Kahn, a participant in Nir Barzilai's Longevity Genes Project at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, died in New York in 2015 at age 109, and all four of his siblings became centenarians, including his sister Helen who lived to almost 110 despite smoking for 80 years.
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