[HTML][HTML] Simplified assay for epigenetic age estimation in whole blood of adults

L Vidal-Bralo, Y Lopez-Golan, A Gonzalez - Frontiers in genetics, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Biological age is not always concordant with chronological age and the departures are of
interest for understanding how diseases and environmental insults affect tissue function …

[HTML][HTML] I mmunosenescence and inflammaging: risk factors of severe COVID-19 in older people

AJ Pietrobon, FME Teixeira, MN Sato - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Old individuals are more susceptible to various infections due to immunological changes
that occur during the aging process. These changes named collectively as …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic changes of vital organs in SARS-CoV-2–induced systemic toxicity

S Li, F Ma, T Yokota, G Garcia Jr, A Palermo, Y Wang… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 are associated with a much higher mortality
rate than pulmonary manifestations. However, little is known about the pathogenesis of …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship of tobacco smoking and smoking-related DNA methylation with epigenetic age acceleration

X Gao, Y Zhang, LP Breitling, H Brenner - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent studies have identified biomarkers of chronological age based on DNA methylation
levels. Since active smoking contributes to a wide spectrum of aging-related diseases in …

[HTML][HTML] Host methylation predicts SARS-CoV-2 infection and clinical outcome

IR Konigsberg, B Barnes, M Campbell… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Background Since the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, most clinical testing has focused
on RT-PCR. Host epigenome manipulation post coronavirus infection,–suggests that DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related DNA methylation changes are tissue-specific with ELOVL2 promoter methylation as exception

RC Slieker, CL Relton, TR Gaunt, PE Slagboom… - Epigenetics & …, 2018 - Springer
Background The well-established association of chronological age with changes in DNA
methylation is primarily founded on the analysis of large sets of blood samples, while …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Improved precision of epigenetic clock estimates across tissues and its implication for biological ageing

Q Zhang, CL Vallerga, RM Walker, T Lin, AK Henders… - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background DNA methylation changes with age. Chronological age predictors built from
DNA methylation are termed 'epigenetic clocks'. The deviation of predicted age from the …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-tissue DNA-methylation epigenetic clock based on deep learning

LP de Lima Camillo, LR Lapierre, R Singh - npj Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Several age predictors based on DNA methylation, dubbed epigenetic clocks, have been
created in recent years, with the vast majority based on regularized linear regression. This …

Epigenetic clock: DNA methylation in aging

S Jiang, Y Guo - Stem cells international, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aging, which is accompanied by decreased organ function and increased disease
incidence, limits human lifespan and has attracted investigators for thousands of years. In …