Assessing biological aging: the origin of deficit accumulation.

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Published in Biogerontology on July 17, 2013

Authors

Arnold Mitnitski1, Xiaowei Song, Kenneth Rockwood

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Suite 229-5790 University Ave., Halifax, NS, B3H 1V7, Canada, arnold.mitnitski@dal.ca.

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