MOSCOW, September 7 – RIA Novosti . Researchers from the UK have developed a simple method of calculation of biological age, which allows you to determine the rate at which aging or that individual on the activity of hundreds of key genes in his body, according to a paper published in the journal Genome Biology.
” When we tested our method on a 70-year old Briton, we could literally take away the people, the chances of dying for them in the near future were virtually zero, as those who had to die in a short time with a 50% chance, “- said Jamie Timmons (Jamie Timmons) from King’s College London (UK).
Timmons and his colleagues have learned to calculate the real age of the person, its rate of aging and in the process found that an active or sedentary lifestyle have practically no effect on life expectancy and the rate of decay of the body, the structure of more than 50 thousand pieces of DNA in the genomes of hundreds of young and old people.
This analysis showed that the signs of aging, and its speed can be opened on the structure and activity of 150 genes which significantly simplifies and reduces the cost of such an analysis.
Armed with this technique, a group of Timmons checked, whether it can predict the approximate time of death for several hundred 70-year-old resident of Sweden, agreed to take part in the experiment. According to biologists, their technique proved to be quite accurate, and biologists managed to learn how to calculate the probability of death of the person in the next 3-4 years.
This method of measuring the rate of aging is believed to be the authors of articles will be of interest primarily physicians, oncologists, neurologists and other physicians who work with age-related diseases. In addition, it has an unorthodox use – for example, the rate of aging of the person can be used to estimate how much pension savings he will need in old age.
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