Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Caloric restriction delays age-related methylation drift

  • Shinji Maegawa,
  • Yue Lu,
  • Tomomitsu Tahara,
  • Justin T. Lee,
  • Jozef Madzo,
  • Shoudan Liang,
  • Jaroslav Jelinek,
  • Ricki J. Colman,
  • Jean-Pierre J. Issa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00607-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Caloric restriction has been shown to increase lifespan in mammals. Here, the authors provide evidence that age-related methylation drift correlates with lifespan and that caloric restriction in mice and rhesus monkeys results in attenuation of age-related methylation drift.