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Epigenetic age acceleration and cardiovascular outcomes in school-age children: The Generation R Study
16 Nov 2021
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BACKGROUND: Hypertension and atherosclerosis may partly originate in early life. Altered epigenetic aging may be a mechanism underlying associations of early-life exposures and the development of cardiovascular risk factors in childhood. A discrepancy between chronological age and age predicted from neonatal DNA methylation data is referred to as age acceleration. It may either be positive, if DNA methylation age...
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