Decreased epigenetic age of PBMCs from Italian semi-supercentenarians and their offspring

Aging

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1159-1170

  Horvath, Steve ^a,b   Pirazzini, Chiara ^c   Bacalini, Maria Giulia ^c,d   Gentilini, Davide ^e   Di Blasio, Anna Maria ^e   Delledonne, Massimo ^d,f   Mari, Daniela ^g,h   Arosio, Beatrice ^g,h   Monti, Daniela ⁱ   Passarino, Giuseppe ^j   De Rango, Francesco ^j   D'Aquila, Patrizia ^j   Giuliani, Cristina ^c   Marasco, Elena ^c   Collino, Sebastiano ^k   Descombes, Patrick ^k   Garagnani, Paolo ^c,l   Franceschi, Claudio ^c,m,n  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Personal Genomics Srl   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^k NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^m CNR   (Italy)

ⁿ IRCCS   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Biomarker of ageing; DNA methylation; Epigenetic clock; Semi supercentenarians; Semi supercentenarians offspring

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84957581421     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100861     Document Type: Article

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