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Re:Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatr... by amelius on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:28PM (#27573612)
> something that takes so long to appear must be related to DNA damage

May I ask why? Can't it be some other process that builds up over time?

Re:Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatr... by tgbugs on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:16PM (#27574365)
There aren't good candidates for highly non-linear processes that can accumulate but take decades to hit some threshold. Biological systems are full of homeostatic mechanisms that prevent such slow accumulation and if and when they break they do so suddenly, so virtually all the other candidates don't fit the profile because you expect incidence to be distributed evenly as a function of age or occurring early (e.g. embryonic lethal).