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It can be hard to work out whether particular events are a cause or a correlate of ageing — do mutations in mitochondrial DNA, for instance, speed up the process of growing old? Some clever studies suggest so.

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Figure 1: Many mutational pathways can accelerate ‘segmental ageing’ (or, to use more conservative nomenclature, segmental ageing-like syndromes) in mice.

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    George M. Martin & Lawrence A. Loeb

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