Stochastic modulations of the pace and patterns of ageing: Impacts on quasi-stochastic distributions of multiple geriatric pathologies

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 107-111

  Martin, George M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic drift; Evolutionary biology; Geriatric pathology; Mitochondria; Somatic mutation; Stochastic events

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFESPAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEOPLASM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTEIN DEFECT; SOMATIC MUTATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STOICHIOMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84860758536     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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