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NATURE
Volume 602, Issue 7895, Pages 51-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04282-9
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health [U19AG057377]
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The Dog Aging Project aims to study the aging process in companion dogs through long-term research, collecting extensive data and samples to investigate the genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors associated with aging.
The Dog Aging Project is a long-term longitudinal study of ageing in tens of thousands of companion dogs. The domestic dog is among the most variable mammal species in terms of morphology, behaviour, risk of age-related disease and life expectancy. Given that dogs share the human environment and have a sophisticated healthcare system but are much shorter-lived than people, they offer a unique opportunity to identify the genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors associated with healthy lifespan. To take advantage of this opportunity, the Dog Aging Project will collect extensive survey data, environmental information, electronic veterinary medical records, genome-wide sequence information, clinicopathology and molecular phenotypes derived from blood cells, plasma and faecal samples. Here, we describe the specific goals and design of the Dog Aging Project and discuss the potential for this open-data, community science study to greatly enhance understanding of ageing in a genetically variable, socially relevant species living in a complex environment.
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