{"id":109420,"date":"2020-07-02T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-use-genetics-to-develop-better-formula-to-calculate-dog-age-in-human-years"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:03:18","slug":"scientists-use-genetics-to-develop-better-formula-to-calculate-dog-age-in-human-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-use-genetics-to-develop-better-formula-to-calculate-dog-age-in-human-years","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use Genetics to Develop Better Formula to Calculate Dog Age in \u201cHuman Years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-genetics-to-develop-better-formula-to-calculate-dog-age-in-human-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, it\u2019s this: multiply your dog\u2019s age by seven to calculate how old they are in \u201chuman years.\u201d In other words, the old adage says, a four-year-old dog is similar in physiological age to a 28-year-old person.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine throws that out the window. Instead, they created a formula that more accurately compares the ages of humans and dogs. The formula is based on the changing patterns of methyl groups in dog and human genomes \u2014 how many of these chemical tags and where they\u2019re located \u2014 as they age. Since the two species don\u2019t age at the same rate over their lifespans, it turns out it\u2019s not a perfectly linear comparison, as the 1:7 years rule-of-thumb would suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, it\u2019s this: multiply your dog\u2019s age by seven to calculate how old they are in \u201chuman years.\u201d In other words, the old adage says, a four-year-old dog is similar in physiological age to a 28-year-old person. But a new study by researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}