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Obesity accelerates epigenetic aging in middle-aged but not in elderly individuals
BACKGROUND: Human aging is associated with profound changes in one of the major epigenetic mechanisms, DNA methylation. Some of these changes occur in a clock-like fashion, i.e., correlating with the calendar age of an individual, thus providing a new aging biomarker. Some reports have identified fa...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5310016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28289477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13148-016-0301-7 |