Accelerated DNA methylation age: associations with PTSD and neural integrity

EJ Wolf, MW Logue, JP Hayes, N Sadeh… - …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Accumulating evidence suggests that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may
accelerate cellular aging and lead to premature morbidity and neurocognitive decline …

Accelerated DNA methylation age: associations with posttraumatic stress disorder and mortality

EJ Wolf, MW Logue, TB Stoop… - Psychosomatic …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective Recently developed indices of cellular age based on DNA methylation (DNAm)
data, referred to as DNAm age, are being used to study factors that influence the rate of …

Traumatic stress and accelerated DNA methylation age: a meta-analysis

EJ Wolf, H Maniates, N Nugent, AX Maihofer… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Recent studies examining the association between posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) and accelerated aging, as defined by DNA methylation-based estimates of …

Epigenetic age acceleration and cognitive decline: a twin study

V Vaccarino, M Huang, Z Wang, Q Hui… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Little is known about the role of DNA methylation (DNAm) epigenetic age
acceleration in cognitive decline. Using a twin study design, we examined whether DNAm …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation-based measures of biological aging and cognitive decline over 16-years: preliminary longitudinal findings in midlife

RG Reed, JE Carroll, AL Marsland… - Aging (Albany NY), 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA methylation-based (DNAm) measures of biological aging associate with increased risk
of morbidity and mortality, but their links with cognitive decline are less established. This …

Posttraumatic psychopathology and the pace of the epigenetic clock: a longitudinal investigation

EJ Wolf, MW Logue, FG Morrison, ES Wilcox… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and stress/trauma exposure are cross-
sectionally associated with advanced DNA methylation age relative to chronological age …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated DNA methylation aging and increased resilience in veterans: The biological cost for soldiering on

D Mehta, D Bruenig, B Lawford, W Harvey… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Accelerated epigenetic aging, the difference between the DNA methylation-predicted age
(DNAm age) and the chronological age, is associated with a myriad of diseases. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma, and accelerated biological aging among post-9/11 veterans

KJ Bourassa, ME Garrett, A Caspi, M Dennis… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
People who experience trauma and develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at
increased risk for poor health. One mechanism that could explain this risk is accelerated …

A DNA methylation clock associated with age-related illnesses and mortality is accelerated in men with combat PTSD

R Yang, GWY Wu, JE Verhoeven, A Gautam… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation patterns at specific cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites predictably
change with age and can be used to derive “epigenetic age”, an indicator of biological age …

DNA methylation age and physical and cognitive aging

J Maddock, J Castillo-Fernandez… - The Journals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background DNA methylation (DNAm) age acceleration (AgeAccel) has been shown to be
predictive of all-cause mortality but it is unclear what functional aspect (s) of aging it …