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The vicious cycle of aging and genomic instability. Spontaneous mutations and rearrangements accumulate with time leading deregulation of transcription, impaired stress response and diminished function of DNA repair genes. Decline of DNA repair efficiency and fidelity leads to more mutations, and further exacerbates the age-related functional decline.
