Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Common diseases alter the physiological age-related blood microRNA profile

  • Tobias Fehlmann,
  • Benoit Lehallier,
  • Nicholas Schaum,
  • Oliver Hahn,
  • Mustafa Kahraman,
  • Yongping Li,
  • Nadja Grammes,
  • Lars Geffers,
  • Christina Backes,
  • Rudi Balling,
  • Fabian Kern,
  • Rejko Krüger,
  • Frank Lammert,
  • Nicole Ludwig,
  • Benjamin Meder,
  • Bastian Fromm,
  • Walter Maetzler,
  • Daniela Berg,
  • Kathrin Brockmann,
  • Christian Deuschle,
  • Anna-Katharina von Thaler,
  • Gerhard W. Eschweiler,
  • Sofiya Milman,
  • Nir Barziliai,
  • Matthias Reichert,
  • Tony Wyss-Coray,
  • Eckart Meese,
  • Andreas Keller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19665-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Aging is a key risk factor for chronic diseases of the elderly. Here the authors perform large-scale miRNA profiling of blood from individuals of a range of ages and show that common diseases alter the physiological age-related blood microRNA profile.