Epigenetic clocks are not accelerated in COVID-19 patients

J Franzen, S Nüchtern, V Tharmapalan, M Vieri… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Age is a major risk factor for severe outcome of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In
this study, we followed the hypothesis that particularly patients with accelerated epigenetic …

Accelerated biological aging in COVID-19 patients

X Cao, W Li, T Wang, D Ran, V Davalos… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronological age is a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. Previous
findings indicate that epigenetic age could be altered in viral infection. However, the …

Epigenetic age acceleration in surviving versus deceased COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome following hospitalization

Y Bejaoui, F Humaira Amanullah, M Saad, S Taleb… - Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Aging has been reported as a major risk factor for severe symptoms and higher
mortality rates in COVID-19 patients. Molecular hallmarks such as epigenetic alterations and …

The impact of COVID-19 on “biological aging”

F Humaira Amanullah, T Alam, N El Hajj… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The global impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been unprecedented, posing a
significant public health challenge. Chronological age has been identified as a key …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of DNA methylation signature and rules for SARS-CoV-2 associated with age

L Chen, H Liao, G Huang, S Ding, W Guo… - Frontiers in Bioscience …, 2022 - imrpress.com
Background: COVID-19 displays an increased mortality rate and higher risk of severe
symptoms with increasing age, which is thought to be a result of the compromised immunity …

Evidence for biological age acceleration and telomere shortening in COVID-19 survivors

A Mongelli, V Barbi, M Gottardi Zamperla… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The SARS-CoV-2 infection determines the COVID-19 syndrome characterized, in the worst
cases, by severe respiratory distress, pulmonary and cardiac fibrosis, inflammatory cytokine …

Causal association of epigenetic aging and COVID-19 severity and susceptibility: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

W Xu, F Zhang, Y Shi, Y Chen, B Shi, G Yu - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Observational data from China, the United States, France, and Italy suggest that
chronological age is an adverse COVID-19 outcome risk factor, with older patients having a …

Understanding the role of telomere attrition and epigenetic signatures in COVID-19 severity

A Mahmoodpoor, S Sanaie, F Roudbari, T Sabzevari… - Gene, 2022 - Elsevier
Within the past several decades, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases with
pandemic potential have endangered human lives. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Longitudinal study of DNA methylation and epigenetic clocks prior to and following test-confirmed COVID-19 and mRNA vaccination

APS Pang, AT Higgins-Chen, F Comite, I Raica… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The host epigenetic landscape rapidly changes during SARS-CoV-2 infection, and evidence
suggest that severe COVID-19 is associated with durable scars to the epigenome …

Role of epigenetics in the clinical evolution of COVID-19 disease. Epigenome-wide association study identifies markers of severe outcome

L Calzari, L Zanotti, E Inglese, F Scaglione… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background COVID-19 has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and given its impact
on morbidity and mortality, there is an unmet medical need to discover endogenous cellular …