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US 2001/0055769 A1Published application
Method of determining biological/molecular age
OwnerMichael D. Seidmaninventor
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Abstract
The molecular biological age of an individual, as opposed to the chronological age, is determined by extracting mitochondrial DNA from a physical specimen from the individual, performing molecular biological testing to detect aging deletions, quantifying the deletions and comparing the quantification with normative data for the quantification derived from a plurality of age groups of a population.
Claims5
A method of determining the molecular age of an individual, comprising:
- obtaining a physical specimen from the individual containing DNA;
- extracting mitochondrial DNA from the sample;
- performing molecular biological testing to analyze aging deletions in the mitochondrial DNA;
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- comparing the quantity of deletion to predetermined normative data representing the quantity of deletions in the various age groups of a population to determine the molecular age of the individual.
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