Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Skeletal muscle transcriptome in healthy aging

  • Robert A. Tumasian,
  • Abhinav Harish,
  • Gautam Kundu,
  • Jen-Hao Yang,
  • Ceereena Ubaida-Mohien,
  • Marta Gonzalez-Freire,
  • Mary Kaileh,
  • Linda M. Zukley,
  • Chee W. Chia,
  • Alexey Lyashkov,
  • William H. Wood,
  • Yulan Piao,
  • Christopher Coletta,
  • Jun Ding,
  • Myriam Gorospe,
  • Ranjan Sen,
  • Supriyo De,
  • Luigi Ferrucci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22168-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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As human skeletal muscle ages, gene expression programs change and reflect damage accumulation and homeostatic resilience mechanisms. Here, the authors present a detailed framework of the global transcriptome that characterizes skeletal muscle during aging in healthy individuals.