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The frailty index outperforms DNA methylation age and its derivatives as an indicator of biological age

The measurement of biological age as opposed to chronological age is important to allow the study of factors that are responsible for the heterogeneity in the decline in health and function ability among individuals during aging. Various measures of biological aging have been proposed. Frailty indic...

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Autores principales: Kim, Sangkyu, Myers, Leann, Wyckoff, Jennifer, Cherry, Katie E., Jazwinski, S. Michal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11357-017-9960-3