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Epigenetic age is associated with baseline and 3-year change in frailty in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Clinical epigenetics - 23 Aug 2021
Verschoor Chris P, Lin David T S, Kobor Michael S, Mian Oxana, Ma Jinhui, Pare Guillaume, Ybazeta Gustavo
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BACKGROUND: The trajectory of frailty in older adults is important to public health; therefore, markers that may help predict this and other important outcomes could be beneficial. Epigenetic clocks have been developed and are associated with various health-related outcomes and sociodemographic factors, but associations with frailty are poorly described. Further, it is uncertain whether newer generations of...
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