{"title":"[Somatic mutations and longevity].","authors":"Bertrand Jordan","doi":"10.1051/medsci/2022098","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>New approaches allow precise measurement of somatic mutations in tissues. Applied to a diverse set of mammals, these methods show that somatic mutation load increases with age (as expected) but reaches similar levels near the end of life for animals with extremely different longevity. This is an important result that has many repercussions on concepts of aging and of evolution of longevity.</p>","PeriodicalId":519512,"journal":{"name":"Medecine sciences : M/S","volume":" ","pages":"723-725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medecine sciences : M/S","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/2022098","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/9/12 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
New approaches allow precise measurement of somatic mutations in tissues. Applied to a diverse set of mammals, these methods show that somatic mutation load increases with age (as expected) but reaches similar levels near the end of life for animals with extremely different longevity. This is an important result that has many repercussions on concepts of aging and of evolution of longevity.