Genetic "switches" determine much about our bodies, including hair color, blood type, and susceptibility to certain diseases. Now, researchers believe they have found a gene that regulates something far more eerie: the time of day a person is likely to die.

In an study published in the November 2012 issue of the Annals of Neurology scientists studying the body's biological clock (a.k.a. the circadian rhythm) report the discovery of gene variant that not only determines the likelihood of your being a morning person, but also predicts, with unsettling accuracy, your likely time of death.

The gene typically allows for three possible combinations of nucleotides (the four molecular building blocks of DNA): adenine-adenine (A-A), adenine-guanine (A-G), and guanine-guanine (G-G), according to a written statement released by Harvard Medical School.

"This particular genotype affects the sleep-wake pattern of virtually everyone walking around," Dr. Clifford Saper, chief of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, wrote in the statement. "And it is a fairly profound effect so that the people who have the A-A genotype wake up about an hour earlier than the people who have the G-G genotype, and the A-Gs wake up almost exactly in the middle."

Moreover, investigators realized as some of the 1,200 older subjects in the project died that these nucleotide sequences were accurate predictors of their time of death, within a range of only a few hours. Patients with the A-A and A-G genotypes typically died just before 11 a.m., while subjects with the G-G combination tended to die near 6 p.m.

"So there is really a gene that predicts the time of day that you’ll die. Not the date, fortunately, but the time of day," said Saper.

The Atlantic reports researchers believe their results may be due to the human body reverting to its more natural, circadian rhythm-induced state as death approaches, instead of the cycle created by social commitments.

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And what if you get hit by a car before your EDT(Expected Death Timestamp)?

.Okay...

Now the question is if I would like to know when I will die?!

SMH!!!!!

kodewrita: And what if you get hit by a car before your EDT(Expected Death Timestamp)?

Exactly my thought. These scientists sef ehn! I call it the declining act of over-intelligence. You get so intellingent that you start getting so stupid.

Sleep Wake pattern. The last I checked, I wake up early when I sleep early and wake up late when I sleep late.

This space is reserve for my future children to check their ttime of death. Cause i know before then the probability of been hit by a car or murdered will be known. Chaiii we scientist are entering God's enviroment

What about death through accident

SMH....

How can i check mine??.. So i'll know how many gals to lash before.....

Mad Cow: .Okay...

Now the question is if I would like to know when I will die?!

Abi na d real koko b dat my broda bcoz even if dem tell u say na next 5 years ur life will never b as it use to be anymore coz ur nw waiting 4 Mr death 2 come pick U

Useless research waste of money, time and valuable resources anyway they have it in abundance so no problem.

Scientists bu ndi ara...i thought they are objective and rational beings. How dare they say a gene can predict ur time of death? What nonsense... Wait o! On a 2nd thought,this might be true. I mean awesome discoveries in the past were considered nonsense and a sin.now we enjoy their benefits. Who knws if in the near future,people will become aware of their time of death via genes??

miteolu: What about death through accident

Even poison and witchcraft nko?

If the person commits suicide nko?
I read this findings yesterday and I laughed.

Load of crap.

Guys, please read and understand before replying. The research was about time (am or pm) of death not date (day, week, month or year) of death.

PapaBrowne:

Exactly my thought. These scientists sef ehn! I call it the declining act of over-intelligence. You get so intellingent that you start get so stupid.

Sleep Wake pattern. The last I checked, I wake up early when I sleep early and wake up late when I sleep late.

GBAM.. U ve said it all..

Hmm...so if I have the 6pm death gene and am still alive at 8pm then am good for another day. Can you imagine the priests setting up their schedules to go pray for people before they die? .."Ehmm....lady...is his death gene A,G or S?... you said A?..ok...I"ll be at his beside before sunrise tomorrow...he's good for tonight"

i wonder why grown ups cant read in between lines be4 commenting, the research team stated it clearly that it is 'time of death' in the day, like the hour, not the date as in the month or year.. And like every scientific rule or law, with this one not an exception, it is usually in an ideal condition, in other words, time of death when some one dies a natural death not pre-, like that of accidents

Jusp passinq

i really cant understand why some people find it so difficult to comprehend the salient points of this article...
I hold my grounds that this scientific analysis is absolutely devoid of any ambiguity!!!

What if boko haram boiz bomb Ʊ or if ALUU pple catch Ʊ stealing?

Bt seriously, dis kinda discovery usually work in an ideal situation or what d economists call ceteris paribus(all tinz being equal).

Not interested

kodewrita: And what if you get hit by a car before your EDT(Expected Death Timestamp)?

U should know better, the only thing that applies here is a natural death like death old age and by disease not something like by accident, murder or suicide.

kabaka1:

U should know better, the only thing that applies here is a natural death like death old age and by disease not something like by accident, murder or suicide.

I am not disputing the veracity of their results, I am trying to highlight its pointlessness in general life. ( and also being a troll for the fun of it).

most of una go dey form graduate but know nothing. scientific reserch wether u like it or not have made the world a better place. most things we enjoy now is through reserch which was carried out a long time & i guess by then pple like u were also laughing at the reserchers.

WTF is this load of junk!!! This is a mockery of science . is using the terms nucleotides and genotype supposed to give credibility to this nonsense? Even the title of the topic says a lot about its stewpidity. "Gene can predict likely time of death". Who is gene? a human being or a fortune teller? Anybody well grounded in molecular biology or the mechanisms of gene expression and its relationship to protein production as well as the hereditary function of DNA will know this is just rubbish. Abeg let me rest my case.

The problem we have in this country is lack of understanding.I was extremely bamboozled that none of you comprehend the points the write up is elucidating.The write up does not include the time of death caused by social phenomena as determinable rather it stresses that the time of death(caused by natural occurrences) is determinable based on the aforementioned genes.To me,this write up is a fact.As a professional philosopher,I observed through critical thinking and adept observation that every human being on earth has a particular time,he/she gets overly agitated to pursue his/her goal in life.To some,it may be in the morning,others at noon,and to another in the midnight.The above write up is stressing that all these eruptions are caused by the aforementioned genes.From their experiments,they discovered that these genes play important roles on when the body finally separate from the incoporeal soul.This is an undeniable possibilty.Thanks

Goddys: The problem we have in this country is lack of understanding.I was extremely bamboozled that none of you comprehend the points the write up is elucidating.The write up does not include the time of death caused by social phenomena as determinable rather it stresses that the time of death(caused by natural occurrences) is determinable based on the aforementioned genes.To me,this write up is a fact.As a professional philosopher,I observed through critical thinking and adept observation that every human being on earth has a particular time,he/she gets overly agitated to pursue his/her goal in life.To some,it may be in the morning,others at noon,and to another in the midnight.The above write up is stressing that all these eruptions are caused by the aforementioned genes.From their experiments,they discovered that these genes play important roles on when the body finally separate from the incoporeal soul.This is an undeniable possibilty.Thanks

It is not enough evidence scientifically to conclude that due to polymorphism of a gene a certain trait (in this case sleeping time) is being expressed differently in organisms. It can only exist as a hypothesis or observation for now. Just a few questions: What post translational factors does that gene encode? What are the differences in these translated proteins transcribed from the different gene polymorphisms? In what cells are these genes expressed? what are the signalling mechanisms from those proteins that bring about the cellular functions that derives those sleeping and death time traits? Many more questions to be asked. I get your point though but there is still a lot of questions that need to be answered and the scientists should have done their research thoroughly before making their findings public. Anyways maybe they just published for the sake of accumulating more papers.

Bezed: i wonder why grown ups cant read in between lines be4 commenting, the research team stated it clearly that it is 'time of death' in the day, like the hour, not the date as in the month or year.. And like every scientific rule or law, with this one not an exception, it is usually in an ideal condition, in other words, time of death when some one dies a natural death not pre-, like that of accidents

my brother they just want you to swallow this one first and you can guess what follows next

our life is not in the blood neither in the gene, our life is not rule my the senses of this world...