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Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Cognitive Decline: A Twin Study

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2021

Year

Viola Vaccarino, Minxuan Huang, Zeyuan Wang, Qin Hui, Amit Shah, Jack Goldberg, Nicholas H. Smith, Belal Kaseer, Nancy Murrah, Oleksiy Levantsevych,
The Journals of Gerontology Series A

Abstract

Middle-aged men who had older DNAm age relative to their brothers of the same demographic age showed a faster rate of cognitive decline in the subsequent 11.5 years. These results point to the role of epigenetic modifications in cognitive aging.

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