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Our results reveal several common signatures of aging, including 56 genes consistently overexpressed with age, the most significant of which was APOD, and 17 genes underexpressed with age. We characterized the biological processes associated with these signatures and found that age-related gene expression changes most notably involve an overexpression of inflammation and immune response genes and of genes associated with the lysosome. An underexpression of collagen genes and of genes associated with energy metabolism, particularly mitochondrial genes, as well as alterations in the expression of genes related to apoptosis, cell cycle and cellular senescence biomarkers, were also observed. By employing a new method that emphasizes sensitivity, our work further reveals previously unknown transcriptional changes with age in many genes, processes and functions. We suggest these molecular signatures reflect a combination of degenerative processes but also transcriptional responses to the process of aging. Overall, our results help to understand how transcriptional changes relate to the process of aging and could serve as targets for future studies.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: \u00a0http:\/\/genomics.senescence.info\/uarrays\/signatures.html<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0jp@senescence.info<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp073","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,2,4]],"date-time":"2009-02-04T02:21:04Z","timestamp":1233714064000},"page":"875-881","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":676,"title":["Meta-analysis of age-related gene expression profiles identifies common signatures of aging"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Jo\u00e3o Pedro","family":"de Magalh\u00e3es","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA and 2Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, 4200 Porto, Portugal"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jo\u00e3o","family":"Curado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA and 2Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, 4200 Porto, Portugal"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"George M.","family":"Church","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA and 2Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, 4200 Porto, Portugal"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,2,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013110142636600_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"165","DOI":"10.1016\/0925-4439(95)00024-X","article-title":"Mitochondrial decay in aging","volume":"1271","author":"Ames","year":"1995","journal-title":"Biochim. 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