About the Authors

Chuanfei Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanfei Yu, Yang Li

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanfei Yu, Yang Li

Affiliation Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Andrew Holmes

Affiliation Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Karol Szafranski

Affiliation Fritz Lipmann Institute – Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Jena, Germany

Chris G. Faulkes

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Clive W. Coen

Affiliation Reproductive Neurobiology and Early Life Origins of Disease, Division of Women's Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Rochelle Buffenstein

Affiliation Barshop Institute for Aging and Longevity Studies and Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Matthias Platzer

Affiliation Fritz Lipmann Institute – Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Jena, Germany

João Pedro de Magalhães

jp@senescence.info

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

George M. Church

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL MP JPdM GMC. Performed the experiments: CY AH KS. Analyzed the data: YL KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGF CWC RB. Wrote the paper: YL JPdM.