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 …

A multi-omics longitudinal aging dataset in primary human fibroblasts with mitochondrial perturbations

G Sturm, AS Monzel, KR Karan, J Michelson, SA Ware… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is a process of progressive change. To develop biological models of aging,
longitudinal datasets with high temporal resolution are needed. Here we report a multi …

“Epigenetic clocks”: Theory and applications in human biology

CP Ryan - American Journal of Human Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
All humans age, but how we age—and how fast—differs considerably from person to
person. This deviation between apparent age and chronological age is often referred to as …

Tracking the epigenetic clock across the human life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort data

RE Marioni, M Suderman, BH Chen… - The Journals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Epigenetic clocks based on DNA methylation yield high correlations with
chronological age in cross-sectional data. Due to a paucity of longitudinal data, it is not …

Decoding aging hallmarks at the single-cell level

S Ma, X Chi, Y Cai, Z Ji, S Wang, J Ren… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Organismal aging exhibits wide-ranging hallmarks in divergent cell types across tissues,
organs, and systems. The advancement of single-cell technologies and generation of rich …

DunedinPACE, a DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of aging

DW Belsky, A Caspi, DL Corcoran, K Sugden… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Background: Measures to quantify changes in the pace of biological aging in response to
intervention are needed to evaluate geroprotective interventions for humans. Previously, we …

Epigenetic clocks reveal a rejuvenation event during embryogenesis followed by aging

C Kerepesi, B Zhang, SG Lee, A Trapp… - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
The notion that the germ line does not age goes back to the 19th-century ideas of August
Weismann. However, being metabolically active, the germ line accumulates damage and …

Diverse interventions that extend mouse lifespan suppress shared age-associated epigenetic changes at critical gene regulatory regions

JJ Cole, NA Robertson, MI Rather, JP Thomson… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Age-associated epigenetic changes are implicated in aging. Notably, age-
associated DNA methylation changes comprise a so-called aging “clock”, a robust …

Underlying features of epigenetic aging clocks in vivo and in vitro

Z Liu, D Leung, K Thrush, W Zhao, S Ratliff… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic clocks, developed using DNA methylation data, have been widely used to
quantify biological aging in multiple tissues/cells. However, many existing epigenetic clocks …

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 …