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The Socioeconomic Gradient in Epigenetic Aging Clocks: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Health and Retirement Study
2021-03-02
Abstract excerpt
Epigenetic clocks have been widely used to predict disease risk in multiple tissues or cells. Their success as a measure of biological aging has prompted research on the connection between epigenetic pathways of aging and the socioeconomic gradient in health and mortality. However, studies examining social correlates of epigenetic aging have yielded inconsistent results. We conducted a comprehensive, comparative a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7871e569-823d-5888-9e5c-3c7850fd23ab
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.01.21252660
