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Human aging and progeria.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM - 1 Jan 2000
Fossel M
Abstract excerpt
The notion that all aging is ultimately cell aging is a novel hypothesis and one with growing support. Recent studies in genetics and cell biology are consistent with this view. Criticism of the model is largely reflective of inadequate understanding of both the model itself and human pathology. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria is a segmental progeria that may well be an 'epigenetic mosaic' disease in which certain...
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