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 …

DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

The relationship between epigenetic age and the hallmarks of aging in human cells

S Kabacik, D Lowe, L Fransen, M Leonard, SL Ang… - Nature aging, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic clocks are mathematically derived age estimators that are based on
combinations of methylation values that change with age at specific CpGs in the genome …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Current perspectives on the cellular and molecular features of epigenetic ageing

K Raj, S Horvath - Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been noted for quite some time that DNA methylation levels decline with age. The
significance of this change remained unknown until it became possible to measure …

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 …

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 …

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 …