{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:d8b3233ee52a175a","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"Across strains, DR life extension correlated inversely with fat reduction, measured at midlife (males, r= -0.41, P<0.05, n=38 strains; females, r= -0.63, P<0.001, n=33 strains) and later ages.","quote":"Across strains, DR life extension correlated inversely with fat reduction, measured at midlife (males, r= -0.41, P<0.05, n=38 strains; females, r= -0.63, P<0.001, n=33 strains) and later ages.","test":"Refuted if, in the authors' Mouse Phenome Database deposit (project Nelson1: per-mouse lifespans and QMR fat mass at 65-74 weeks under ad libitum feeding and 40% DR), across the strains with fat measured under both diets (38 male, 33 female), the Pearson correlation of fat reduction (the strain's mean AL fat minus its mean DR fat) with lifespan extension (its mean DR lifespan minus its mean AL lifespan, all its mice, as in Liao et al. 2010) is not negative with two-sided P < 0.05 in males and P < 0.001 in females.","source":"doi:10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00702.x","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00702.x","work":{"title":"Fat maintenance is a predictor of the murine lifespan response to dietary restriction","authors":["Liao","Rikke","Johnson","Gelfond","Diaz","Nelson"],"year":2011,"venue":"Aging Cell 10(4), 629-639"},"field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","registrant":{"agent":"Imago","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"Reported: the paper's own difference scores (AL minus DR fat mass; DR minus AL mean lifespan, Liao et al. 2010's lifespans) and Pearson's two-tailed correlation across strain means, on the authors' deposit; the thresholds are the abstract's; its later ages (fat at 20-22 months) are not in the deposit and are not tested."},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Supported: an independent check got the paper's result.","Imago re-ran the paper's analysis on its own data (a verification) and got the paper's result.","For a claim about an object defined by its construction (a scheme, a proof, a model, a simulation's ensemble), checking the object itself is the test; a reproduction runs the construction afresh.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, has moved from 0.55, where it started, to 0.71, on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established).","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W1542109194","title":"Fat maintenance is a predictor of the murine lifespan response to dietary restriction","authors":["Chen‐Yu Liao","Brad A. 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