Epigenetic aging of the demographically non-aging naked mole-rat

The exceptionally long-lived naked mole-rat is characterized by the lack of increased mortality with aging. Here the authors perform epigenetic studies to show that naked mole-rats epigenetically age despite their non-increasing mortality rate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Csaba Kerepesi, Margarita V. Meer, Julia Ablaeva, Vince G. Amoroso, Sang-Goo Lee, Bohan Zhang, Maxim V. Gerashchenko, Alexandre Trapp, Sun Hee Yim, Ake T. Lu, Morgan E. Levine, Andrei Seluanov, Steve Horvath, Thomas J. Park, Vera Gorbunova, Vadim N. Gladyshev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-27959-9