Transcriptional profiling of aging in human muscle reveals a common aging signature

Funding

This work was supported by a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, the Stanford Genome Training Program, Merit Review Funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Ellison Medical Foundation.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Drs. Jeffrey Norton, Joseph Presti, Andrew Shelton, and Mark Welton for their assistance in obtaining human muscle samples, and to Marilyn Masek for her expertise in muscle morphometry.