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Epigenetic Aging Signatures Are Coherently Modified in Cancer.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jun 2015
Lin Qiong, Wagner Wolfgang
Abstract excerpt
Aging is associated with highly reproducible DNA methylation (DNAm) changes, which may contribute to higher prevalence of malignant diseases in the elderly. In this study, we analyzed epigenetic aging signatures in 5,621 DNAm profiles of 25 cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Overall, age-associated DNAm patterns hardly reflect chronological age of cancer patients, but they are coherently modified...
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