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Epigenetic profiling and incidence of disrupted development point to gastrulation as aging ground zero in Xenopus laevis
Bohan Zhang, Andrei E. Tarkhov, William J. Ratzan…·Vadim N. Gladyshev
The paper identifies gastrulation in Xenopus laevis as the stage with the lowest epigenetic age and highest developmental disruption, suggesting it as the onset of aging.