Aging of blood can be tracked by DNA methylation changes at just three CpG sites

CI Weidner, Q Lin, CM Koch, L Eisele, F Beier… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Human aging is associated with DNA methylation changes at specific sites in
the genome. These epigenetic modifications may be used to track donor age for forensic …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide methylation profiles reveal quantitative views of human aging rates

G Hannum, J Guinney, L Zhao, LI Zhang, G Hughes… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
The ability to measure human aging from molecular profiles has practical implications in
many fields, including disease prevention and treatment, forensics, and extension of life …

Epigenetic aging: more than just a clock when it comes to cancer

M Yu, WD Hazelton, GE Luebeck, WM Grady - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
The incidence of cancer, adjusted for secular trends, is directly related to age, and advanced
chronologic age is one of the most significant risk factors for cancer. Organismal aging is …

Methylation‐based estimated biological age and cardiovascular disease

L Lind, E Ingelsson, J Sundström… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background DNA methylation changes over life at specific sites in the genome, which can
be used to estimate “biological age.” The aim of this population‐based longitudinal cohort …

Making sense of the ageing methylome

K Seale, S Horvath, A Teschendorff, N Eynon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over time, the human DNA methylation landscape accrues substantial damage, which has
been associated with a broad range of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular …

Aging, exceptional longevity and comparisons of the Hannum and Horvath epigenetic clocks

NJ Armstrong, KA Mather, A Thalamuthu, MJ Wright… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: To examine the relationships between two epigenetic clocks, aging and exceptional
longevity. Materials & methods: Participants were from three adult cohorts with blood DNA …

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 …

Profiling epigenetic age in single cells

A Trapp, C Kerepesi, VN Gladyshev - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation dynamics have emerged as a promising biomarker of mammalian aging,
with multivariate machine learning models ('epigenetic clocks') enabling measurement of …

[HTML][HTML] The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

MJ Peters, R Joehanes, LC Pilling… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Disease incidences increase with age, but the molecular characteristics of ageing that lead
to increased disease susceptibility remain inadequately understood. Here we perform a …

BiT age: A transcriptome‐based aging clock near the theoretical limit of accuracy

DH Meyer, B Schumacher - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aging clocks dissociate biological from chronological age. The estimation of biological age
is important for identifying gerontogenes and assessing environmental, nutritional, or …