It can be hard to work out whether particular events are a cause or a correlate of ageing — do mutations in mitochondrial DNA, for instance, speed up the process of growing old? Some clever studies suggest so.
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Martin, G., Loeb, L. Mice and mitochondria. Nature 429, 357–359 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/429357a
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