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 …

Human epigenetic ageing is logarithmic with time across the entire lifespan

S Snir, C Farrell, M Pellegrini - Epigenetics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic changes during ageing have been characterized by multiple epigenetic clocks
that allow the prediction of chronological age based on methylation status. Despite their …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic age is associated with baseline and 3-year change in frailty in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

CP Verschoor, DTS Lin, MS Kobor, O Mian, J Ma… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Background The trajectory of frailty in older adults is important to public health; therefore,
markers that may help predict this and other important outcomes could be beneficial …

[HTML][HTML] Cell and tissue type independent age-associated DNA methylation changes are not rare but common

T Zhu, SC Zheng, DS Paul, S Horvath… - Aging (Albany …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Age-associated DNA methylation changes have been widely reported across many different
tissue and cell types. Epigenetic 'clocks' that can predict chronological age with a …

“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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

R methylCIPHER: a methylation clock investigational package for hypothesis-driven evaluation & research

KL Thrush, AT Higgins-Chen, Z Liu, ME Levine - biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Background Epigenetic clocks are promising tools for the study of aging in humans. The
clocks quantify biological aging above and beyond chronological age, demonstrate …

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

S Horvath, K Raj - Nature reviews genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying and validating molecular targets of interventions that extend the human health
span and lifespan has been difficult, as most clinical biomarkers are not sufficiently …

Assessment of epigenetic clocks as biomarkers of aging in basic and population research

ME Levine - The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The Geoscience paradigm suggests that targeting the aging process could delay or prevent
the risk of multiple major age-related diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease …