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Science & Technology - Monday, February 8, 2010 11:01 - 1 Comment
Genetic variants linked to human aging
Tim Spector, a professor at King’s College London, who co-led the project explains that the variants identified are near a gene called TERC, “which is already known to play an important role in maintaining telomere length. What our study suggests is that some people are genetically programmed to age at a faster rate. The effect was quite considerable in those with the variant, equivalent to between three to four years of ‘biological aging’.
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK)—After analyzing more than 500,000 genetic variations across the entire human genome, a research team has identified definitive variants associated with biological aging in humans. Continue…
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