methylclock: a Bioconductor package to estimate DNA methylation age

D Pelegí-Sisó, P De Prado, J Ronkainen… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Ageing is a biological and psychosocial process related to diseases and
mortality. It correlates with changes in DNA methylation (DNAm) in all human tissues …

Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex

GL Shireby, JP Davies, PT Francis, J Burrage… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human DNA methylation data have been used to develop biomarkers of ageing, referred to
as 'epigenetic clocks', which have been widely used to identify differences between …

Ageing-associated DNA methylation dynamics are a molecular readout of lifespan variation among mammalian species

R Lowe, C Barton, CA Jenkins, C Ernst, O Forman… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Mammalian species exhibit a wide range of lifespans. To date, a robust and
dynamic molecular readout of these lifespan differences has not yet been identified. Recent …

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

AT Lu, Z Fei, A Haghani, TR Robeck, JA Zoller, CZ Li… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Aging, often considered a result of random cellular damage, can be accurately estimated
using DNA methylation profiles, the foundation of pan-tissue epigenetic clocks. Here, we …

Dynamic DNA methylation during aging: a “prophet” of age-related outcomes

FH Xiao, HT Wang, QP Kong - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The biological markers of aging used to predict physical health status in older people are of
great interest. Telomere shortening, which occurs during the process of cell replication, was …

DNA methylation clocks for dogs and humans

S Horvath, AT Lu, A Haghani… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
DNA methylation profiles have been used to develop biomarkers of aging known as
epigenetic clocks, which predict chronological age with remarkable accuracy and show …

A rat epigenetic clock recapitulates phenotypic aging and co-localizes with heterochromatin

M Levine, RA McDevitt, M Meer, K Perdue… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Robust biomarkers of aging have been developed from DNA methylation in humans and
more recently, in mice. This study aimed to generate a novel epigenetic clock in rats—a …

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 …

New targeted approaches for epigenetic age predictions

Y Han, J Franzen, T Stiehl, M Gobs, CC Kuo, M Nikolić… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Age-associated DNA methylation changes provide a promising biomarker for
the aging process. While genome-wide DNA methylation profiles enable robust age …

DNA methylation clocks in aging: categories, causes, and consequences

AE Field, NA Robertson, T Wang, A Havas, T Ideker… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Age-associated changes to the mammalian DNA methylome are well documented and
thought to promote diseases of aging, such as cancer. Recent studies have identified …