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Recent progress in genetics of aging, senescence and longevity: focusing on cancer-related genes.
Oncotarget - 1 Dec 2012
Berman Albert E, Leontieva Olga V, Natarajan Venkatesh, McCubrey James A, Demidenko Zoya N, Nikiforov Mikhail A
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It is widely believed that aging results from the accumulation of molecular damage, including damage of DNA and mitochondria and accumulation of molecular garbage both inside and outside of the cell. Recently, this paradigm is being replaced by the "hyperfunction theory", which postulates that aging is caused by activation of signal transduction pathways such as TOR (Target of Rapamycin). These pathways consist...
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