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. 2024 Jul 29;14:17439. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-67641-2

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Epigenetic clock analysis of pair bonding status in brain samples. Age of adult sex-naive animals (x-axis) versus the age estimate according to the pan-tissue vole clock trained on pair-bonded animals in (A) all tissues combined, (C) individual tissues (blood, brain, ear, and liver). Age of adult pair-bonded animals (x-axis) versus the age estimate according to the pan-tissue vole clock trained on sex-naive animals (y-axis) in (D) all tissues combined, (F) individual tissues. Dots are colored by tissue type: green = blood, orange = brain, purple = ear, pink = liver. Samples are labelled by sex (F = female, M = male). (B,E) Age adjusted estimates of the cross validated age estimates versus tissue. The error bars depict two standard errors, so if they cross over the 0-line, then the two-sided p-value is greater than 0.05. All voles younger than 0.3 years were sex-naive and were therefore restricted from these analyses. For panels (A), (C), (D), and (F), the black solid and dashed lines correspond to the regression line and the diagonal reference line (y = x), respectively.