Somatic mutation burden in relation to aging and functional life span: implications for cellular reprogramming and rejuvenation.

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The accrual of somatic mutations has been implicated as causal factors in aging since the 1950s. However, the quantitative analysis of somatic mutations has posed a major challenge due to the random nature of de novo mutations in normal tissues, which has limited analysis to tumors and other clonal lineages. Advances in single-cell and single-molecule next-generation sequencing now allow to obtain, for the first...

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