The epigenetic clock as a predictor of disease and mortality risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

PD Fransquet, J Wrigglesworth, RL Woods, ME Ernst… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Background Ageing is one of the principal risk factors for many chronic diseases. However,
there is considerable between-person variation in the rate of ageing and individual …

DNA methylation-based age clocks: From age prediction to age reversion

R Noroozi, S Ghafouri-Fard, A Pisarek… - Ageing Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aging as an irretrievable occurrence throughout the entire life is characterized by a
progressive decline in physiological functionality and enhanced disease vulnerability …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

BH Chen, RE Marioni, E Colicino, MJ Peters… - Aging (Albany …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Estimates of biological age based on DNA methylation patterns, often referred to as
“epigenetic age”,“DNAm age”, have been shown to be robust biomarkers of age in humans …

Associations of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and education with 13 epigenetic clocks in a nationally representative US sample: the Health and Retirement Study

EM Crimmins, B Thyagarajan, ME Levine… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Many DNA methylation-based indicators have been developed as summary
measures of epigenetic aging. We examine the associations between 13 epigenetic clocks …

An epigenome-wide association study of sex-specific chronological ageing

DL McCartney, F Zhang, RF Hillary, Q Zhang… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Advanced age is associated with cognitive and physical decline and is a major
risk factor for a multitude of disorders. There is also a gap in life expectancy between males …

Epigenetics of aging and aging-related disease

A Brunet, SL Berger - Journals of Gerontology Series A …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Aging is associated with a wide range of human disorders, including cancer, diabetes,
cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases. Long thought to be an inexorable road …

Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex

GL Shireby, JP Davies, PT Francis, J Burrage… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human DNA methylation data have been used to develop biomarkers of ageing, referred to
as 'epigenetic clocks', which have been widely used to identify differences between …

Epigenetic age acceleration predicts cancer, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality in a German case cohort

L Perna, Y Zhang, U Mons, B Holleczek, KU Saum… - Clinical …, 2016 - Springer
Background Previous studies have developed models predicting methylation age from DNA
methylation in blood and other tissues (epigenetic clock) and suggested the difference …

Alcohol consumption and methylation-based measures of biological age

JK Kresovich, AM Martinez Lopez… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic age acceleration is considered a measure of biological aging based on genome-
wide patterns of DNA methylation. Although age acceleration has been associated with the …

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

AT Lu, Z Fei, A Haghani, TR Robeck, JA Zoller, CZ Li… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Aging is often perceived as a degenerative process resulting from random accrual of cellular
damage over time. Despite this, age can be accurately estimated by epigenetic clocks based …