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Association of facial ageing with DNA methylation and epigenetic age predictions

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-018-0572-2

Published Online: 2018-11-08

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Marioni, Riccardo E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4430-4260
Belsky, Daniel W.

Deary, Ian J.

Wagner, Wolfgang
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Medical Research Council (MR/K026992/1)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (WA 1706/8-1)
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Article History

Received: 25 July 2018

Accepted: 21 October 2018

First Online: 8 November 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Following written informed consent, peripheral whole blood was collected for DNA extraction in LBC1921. Ethics permission for the LBC1921 was obtained from the Lothian Research Ethics Committee (LREC/1998/4/183 and LREC/2003/7/23). LBC1936 ethics permission was obtained from the Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee for Scotland (MREC/01/0/56) and the Lothian Research Ethics Committee (LREC/2003/2/29).

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