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Landscape of somatic mutations in aging human heart muscle cells.
Nature aging - 1 Aug 2022
Walsh Christopher, Choudhury Sangita, Chen Ming Hui
Abstract excerpt
Using single-cell whole-genome sequencing, we identified and characterized the landscape of somatic single-nucleotide variants (sSNVs) in single cardiomyocytes from individuals across the human lifespan. Aged cardiomyocytes were found to have a higher burden of sSNVs and show mutational signatures that suggest failed repair of oxidative DNA damage.
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