GenBiot

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   by GenBiot 4mo ago

   An interesting idea, but a big problem would be that the uterine environment is shared between twins, and so any contributions from that shared environment will not be disentangled in your proposed model.
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   by GenBiot 8mo ago

   This is incorrect. Twin studies typically compare MZ twin similarity against (same sex, usually) DZ twin similarity. Assuming that there is nothing special about MZs for the trait (e.g. in this case if MZ twins lived longer by virtue of bei
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   by GenBiot 8mo ago

   Based on your own citation, this is untrue. The citation you have linked is a meta analysis of 31 trials, many of which specify no medication use at recruitment. You are however correct about population being important (which is a big reaso
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   by GenBiot 8mo ago

   I think they mean in the sense of pro-inflammatory. Which it very much is (especially red meat).
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   by GenBiot 1y ago

   Slowing in this context means going down. Basically they look at 'age acceleration', I.e. how old are you epigentically compared to chronologically. They saw a reduction of several years in this measure over a much shorter period,
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   by GenBiot 1y ago

   However they have no evidence of this. While I would expect this to be the case (as a researcher of ageing epigenetics), this is entirely conjecture.