Menopause accelerates biological aging

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 33, 2016, Pages 9327-9332

  Levine, Morgan E ^a,b   Lu, Ake T ^a   Chen, Brian H ^c   Hernandez, Dena G ^c   Singleton, Andrew B ^c   Ferrucci, Luigi ^c   Bandinelli, Stefania ^d   Salfati, Elias ^e   Manson, JoAnn E ^f   Quach, Austin ^a   Kusters, Cynthia D J ^g   Kuhi, Diana ^h   Wong, Andrew ^h   Teschendorff, Andrew E ^h,i   Widschwendter, Martin ^h   Ritz, Beate R ^g   Absher, Devin ^j   Assimes, Themistocles L ^e   Horvath, Steve ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^j HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Aging; DNA methylation; Epigenetic clock; Menopause; WHI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; ARTICLE; CHEEK MUCOSA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; ADULT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85012913690     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604558113     Document Type: Article

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