Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

A new gene set identifies senescent cells and predicts senescence-associated pathways across tissues

  • Dominik Saul,
  • Robyn Laura Kosinsky,
  • Elizabeth J. Atkinson,
  • Madison L. Doolittle,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Nathan K. LeBrasseur,
  • Robert J. Pignolo,
  • Paul D. Robbins,
  • Laura J. Niedernhofer,
  • Yuji Ikeno,
  • Diana Jurk,
  • João F. Passos,
  • LaTonya J. Hickson,
  • Ailing Xue,
  • David G. Monroe,
  • Tamara Tchkonia,
  • James L. Kirkland,
  • Joshua N. Farr,
  • Sundeep Khosla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32552-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Identification of senescent cells in vivo remains a challenging task. Here the authors present and validate a senescence gene set called SenMayo enriched in human and murine aged tissues.