Epigenetic drift in the aging genome: A ten-year follow-up in an elderly twin cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1146-1158

  Tan, Qihua ^a   Heijmans, Bastiaan T ^b   Hjelmborg, Jacob B ^a   Soerensen, Mette ^a   Christensen, Kaare ^a   Christiansen, Lene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; DNA methylation; Longitudinal; Survival; Twins

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; TWIN STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWINS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CPG ISLANDS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85019564184     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw132     Document Type: Article

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