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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages 567-578Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2944
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- National Institute of Aging
- Julie Martin Mid-Career Award in Aging Research
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Med into Grad Initiative
- National Institutes of Health [T32 AG00057]
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One of the many debated topics in ageing research is whether progeroid syndromes are really accelerated forms of human ageing. The answer requires a better understanding of the normal ageing process and the molecular pathology underlying these rare diseases. Exciting recent findings regarding a severe human progeria, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, have implicated molecular changes that are also linked to normal ageing, such as genome instability, telomere attrition, premature senescence and defective stem cell homeostasis in disease development. These observations, coupled with genetic studies of longevity, lead to a hypothesis whereby progeria syndromes accelerate a subset of the pathological changes that together drive the normal ageing process.
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