Accelerated epigenetic age and cognitive decline among urban-dwelling adults

MA Beydoun, D Shaked, SM Tajuddin, J Weiss… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives Epigenetic modifications are closely linked with aging, but their relationship with
cognition remains equivocal. Given known sex differences in epigenetic aging, we explored …

Socioeconomic status, biological aging, and memory in a diverse national sample of older US men and women

J Avila-Rieger, IC Turney, JMJ Vonk, P Esie… - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with
early-onset cognitive aging. Biological aging, the progressive loss of system integrity that …

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 …

Accelerated epigenetic aging in adolescents from low-income households is associated with altered development of brain structures

J Hoare, DJ Stein, SJ Heany, JP Fouche… - Metabolic brain …, 2020 - Springer
The relationship between cognitive performance, macro and microstructural brain anatomy
and accelerated aging as measured by a highly accurate epigenetic biomarker of aging …

Association of pace of aging measured by blood-based DNA methylation with age-related cognitive impairment and dementia

K Sugden, A Caspi, ML Elliott, KJ Bourassa… - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives DNA methylation algorithms are increasingly used to estimate
biological aging; however, how these proposed measures of whole-organism biological …

Epigenetic age acceleration and cognitive function in African American adults in midlife: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study

J Bressler, RE Marioni, RM Walker, R Xia… - The Journals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Methylation levels measured at defined sites across the genome have recently been shown
to be correlated with an individual's chronological age. Age acceleration, or the difference …

Association between epigenetic age acceleration and depressive symptoms in a prospective cohort study of urban-dwelling adults

MA Beydoun, S Hossain, KN Chitrala… - Journal of affective …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective This study tests associations of DNA methylation-based (DNAm) measures of
epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) with cross-sectional and longitudinal depressive …

Childhood intelligence attenuates the association between biological ageing and health outcomes in later life

AJ Stevenson, DL McCartney, RF Hillary… - Translational …, 2019 - nature.com
The identification of biomarkers that discriminate individual ageing trajectories is a principal
target of ageing research. Some of the most promising predictors of biological ageing have …

Evaluation of cell-specific epigenetic age acceleration in people with multiple sclerosis

V Maltby, A Xavier, E Ewing, MP Campagna… - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives In multiple sclerosis (MS), accelerated aging of the immune
system (immunosenescence) may be associated with disease onset or drive progression …

[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 …