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PERDASDEFOGU, ITALY - 10 JUNE 2022: The lab of Parco Genos, a research center and lab that guards the DNA samples of approximately 13,000 people living in the area, as part of a project set up 20 years ago to study the longevity of Sardinians particularly in Ogliastra and Barbagia, here in Perdasdefogu, Sardinia, Italy, on June 10th 2022. The company SharDna, which was responsible for sequencing the blood of 13,000 donors, went bankrupt and had been bought at auction by the British company Tiziana Life. However, the Italian Privacy Guarantor had blocked everything by sanctioning that the that the ownership lies with the Dna donors themselves.

The World Guinness Record of the largest concentration of centenarians - 0.449 percent per capita - was achieved by the town of Perdasdefogu, in the island of Sardinia, Italy, in April 2022. At the time the record was set, there were 8 centenarians in a population of 1,778.

Sardinia has been identified as one of five regions in the world that have high concentrations of people over 100 years old: a total of 534 people across or 33.6 for every 100,000 inhabitants. But Perdasdefogu is unique because the number of centenarians in a town of its size is 16 times the national average.

Perdasdefogu shot to fame in 2012 when the Melis family, made up of nine brothers and sisters, entered the Guinness World Records as the oldest living siblings on Earth, with a combined age at the time of 818. The town’s longest-surviving citizen to date is Consolata Melis, the eldest of the siblings, who died in 2015, two months short of 108 years old. Antonio Brundu, who turned 104 in March, is the current oldest resident.

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PERDASDEFOGU, ITALY - 10 JUNE 2022: The lab of Parco Genos, a research center and lab that guards the DNA samples of approximately 13,000 people living in the area, as part of a project set up 20 years ago to study the longevity of Sardinians particularly in Ogliastra and Barbagia, here in Perdasdefogu, Sardinia, Italy, on June 10th 2022. The company SharDna, which was responsible for sequencing the blood of 13,000 donors, went bankrupt and had been bought at auction by the British company Tiziana Life. However, the Italian Privacy Guarantor had blocked everything by sanctioning that the that the ownership lies with the Dna donors themselves.<br /> <br /> The World Guinness Record of the largest concentration of centenarians - 0.449 percent per capita - was achieved by the town of Perdasdefogu, in the island of Sardinia, Italy, in April 2022. At the time the record was set, there were 8 centenarians in a population of 1,778.<br /> <br /> Sardinia has been identified as one of five regions in the world that have high concentrations of people over 100 years old: a total of 534 people across or 33.6 for every 100,000 inhabitants. But Perdasdefogu is unique because the number of centenarians in a town of its size is 16 times the national average.<br /> <br /> Perdasdefogu shot to fame in 2012 when the Melis family, made up of nine brothers and sisters, entered the Guinness World Records as the oldest living siblings on Earth, with a combined age at the time of 818. The town’s longest-surviving citizen to date is Consolata Melis, the eldest of the siblings, who died in 2015, two months short of 108 years old. Antonio Brundu, who turned 104 in March, is the current oldest resident.