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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the Genomics Shared Facility at Albert Einstein College of Medicine for their assistance with the iPLEX MassArray assay. This work was funded by NIH grants AG024391, AG027734, and AG17242. YS is the recipient of a Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging.

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Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mad.2013.01.005.

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