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A cluster analysis to define human aging phenotypes.
Biogerontology - 1 Jun 2007
Passarino G, Montesanto A, De Rango F, Garasto S, Berardelli M, Domma F, Mari V, Feraco E, Franceschi C, De Benedictis G
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The definition of a precise and consistent aging phenotype that allows to measure the physical and cognitive decline, as well as the increase of mortality hazard late in life, is a major problem for studies aimed at finding the genetic factors modulating rate and quality of human aging. In this frame, it seems promising the concept of frailty which tends to figure out the subjects who are more vulnerable and more...
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