How to slow down the ticking clock: age-associated epigenetic alterations and related interventions to extend life span

AM Galow, S Peleg - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epigenetic alterations pose one major hallmark of organismal aging. Here, we provide an
overview on recent findings describing the epigenetic changes that arise during aging and …

[HTML][HTML] DeepMAge: a methylation aging clock developed with deep learning

F Galkin, P Mamoshina, K Kochetov… - Aging and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA methylation aging clocks have become an invaluable tool in biogerontology research
since their inception in 2013. Today, a variety of machine learning approaches have been …

A computational solution for bolstering reliability of epigenetic clocks: Implications for clinical trials and longitudinal tracking

AT Higgins-Chen, KL Thrush, Y Wang, CJ Minteer… - Nature aging, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic clocks are widely used aging biomarkers calculated from DNA methylation data,
but this data can be surprisingly unreliable. Here we show that technical noise produces …

Longitudinal genome-wide DNA methylation analysis uncovers persistent early-life DNA methylation changes

RF Pérez, P Santamarina, JR Tejedor… - Journal of translational …, 2019 - Springer
Background Early life is a period of drastic epigenetic remodeling in which the epigenome is
especially sensitive to extrinsic and intrinsic influence. However, the epigenome-wide …

Back to the future: epigenetic clock plasticity towards healthy aging

K Declerck, WV Berghe - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2018 - Elsevier
Aging is the most important risk factor for major human lifestyle diseases, including cancer,
neurological and cardiometabolic disorders. Due to the complex interplay between genetics …

Epigenome-wide scans identify differentially methylated regions for age and age-related phenotypes in a healthy ageing population

JT Bell, PC Tsai, TP Yang, R Pidsley, J Nisbet… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Age-related changes in DNA methylation have been implicated in cellular senescence and
longevity, yet the causes and functional consequences of these variants remain unclear. To …

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 …

Epigenetic age-predictor for mice based on three CpG sites

Y Han, M Eipel, J Franzen, V Sakk… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Epigenetic clocks for mice were generated based on deep-sequencing analysis of the
methylome. Here, we demonstrate that site-specific analysis of DNA methylation levels by …

Dysfunctional epigenetic aging of the normal colon and colorectal cancer risk

T Wang, SK Maden, GE Luebeck, CI Li… - Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Background Chronological age is a prominent risk factor for many types of cancers including
colorectal cancer (CRC). Yet, the risk of CRC varies substantially between individuals, even …