3 Topic Commentaries

Medical Oddities: Dogs share our mortality markers

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  Daniel Promislow, DPhil

  Geroscience; metabolomics; comparative biology of aging

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  Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), Tufts University

  These are fundamental building blocks, and they’re deeply evolutionarily preserved.

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  Kate E. Creevy, DVM, MS, DACVIM

  Small animal internal medicine; veterinary geroscience

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  Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

  The molecules that are risky for dogs or protective against a sooner death are very similar to those in people, showing that we share important features of aging biology, which is really interesting and rewarding.

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  May J. Reed, MD

  Geriatrics; gerontology

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  University of Washington School of Medicine

  There is such a clear correlation in dogs with the syndromes that older people develop, whether you want to call it aging, or diseases associated with aging.

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