neoplasm
• tumors exhibit extensive aneuploidy and chromosomal aberrations, notably translocations, chromosome breaks, deletions and dicentric chromosomes
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• mice begin to develop tumors at 5 months of age with tumor incidence reaching 76% by 20 months of age compared to only 2 of 21 Sirt1tm1.1Cxd heterozygotes and 3 of 23 Trp53tm1Brd heterozygotes
• however, treatment of mice with resveratrol decreases the incidence of tumors and delays onset
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• 35% of tumors are lymphomas
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• 16% of tumors are carcinomas
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• 46% of tumors are sarcomas
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• 22% of tumors are teratomas
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