Author Correction Issued for Nature Aging Study Linking DREAM Complex to Somatic Mutation and Lifespan

This record is an Author Correction published in Nature Aging on September 25, 2026, associated with an original research article by Koch and colleagues titled 'DREAM repressive activity links somatic mutation, lifespan and disease,' published in the same journal in June 2026 (doi: 10.1038/s43587-026-01132-z).

The correction notice provided as source material contains only bibliographic and authorship information. It does not describe what was corrected, nor does it restate the original study's hypotheses, methods, results, or conclusions. As a result, no substantive scientific claims about the DREAM complex, somatic mutation, lifespan, or disease mechanisms can be verified from this notice alone.

The original article's title indicates that the authors — based at UC San Diego, the University of Cologne (CECAD), and Western University — investigated a proposed link between the DREAM transcriptional repressor complex, somatic mutation accumulation, and lifespan/disease outcomes. However, any detailed description of their methodology (bioinformatic analyses, model systems, species compared, mutation signature analyses, etc.) or specific findings would require consulting the original paper rather than this correction notice.

Readers interested in the science should retrieve both the original June 2026 article and the September 2026 correction to understand what was revised and whether the revisions affect the study's conclusions. This summary intentionally avoids reproducing mechanistic or quantitative claims that cannot be sourced from the correction notice itself.