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 …

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
… As there is evidence for differences based on the epigenetic clock in other ethnic … of
longitudinal trajectories of the epigenetic clock across the life course, showing that epigenetic age …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal changes in the genetic and environmental influences on the epigenetic clocks across old age: evidence from two twin cohorts

J Jylhävä, J Hjelmborg, M Soerensen, E Munoz… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
… Horvath ad Levine epigenetic clocks are moderately heritable at and across old age. For
the Horvath clock, new genetic influences emerge with age but for the Levine clock, the same …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental tuning of epigenetic clock

A Vaiserman - Frontiers in genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… in maintaining epigenetic … of epigenetic clock, estimated by a DNA methylation-based
methods, may be developmentally adjusted, and that individual’s discrepancies among epigenetic

Relationship between 5 epigenetic clocks, telomere length, and functional capacity assessed in older adults: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses

VM Vetter, CH Kalies, Y Sommerer… - The Journals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Nevertheless, the literature on longitudinal studies investigating the relationship between …
, we present longitudinal data on the 7-CpG epigenetic clock and examine the longitudinal

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal study of DNA methylation and epigenetic clocks prior to and following test-confirmed COVID-19 and mRNA vaccination

APS Pang, AT Higgins-Chen, F Comite, I Raica… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… that mitigates issues with reliability in standard epigenetic clock algorithms. We observed
a divergence in the epigenetic clock estimate PCPhenoAge and epigenetic clock mortality …

Epigenetic clocks”: Theory and applications in human biology

CP Ryan - American Journal of Human Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… At other times, researchers conducting longitudinal studies may find that methods have
changed since their original sample; follow-up research for samples originally run on the …

There are multiple clocks that time us: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among 14 alternative indicators of age and aging

J Drewelies, J Homann, V Vetter, S Duezel, S Kühn… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
… and longitudinal assessments. Our results suggest that within a given domain (eg, epigenetic
clocks … correlated both cross–sectionally and longitudinally. In contrast, across domains …

DNA methylation-based biomarkers and the epigenetic clock theory of ageing

S Horvath, K Raj - Nature reviews genetics, 2018 - nature.com
… biological age estimators — epigenetic clocks, telomere length… — concluded that the
epigenetic clock is the most promising … in vitro studies, longitudinal mediation analyses of human …

The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality

RE Marioni, SE Harris, S Shah… - International journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… Moreover, the longitudinal changes in the epigenetic clock estimates occur at the same
rate as chronological ageing in LBC1936, which gives us confidence that they are tracking the …