Improvements to healthspan through environmental enrichment and lifestyle interventions: where are we now?

NJ Queen, QN Hassan, L Cao - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Environmental enrichment (EE) is an experimental paradigm that is used to explore how a
complex, stimulating environment can impact overall health. In laboratory animal …

Reversing age: dual species measurement of epigenetic age with a single clock

S Horvath, K Singh, K Raj, S Khairnar, A Sanghavi… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Young blood plasma is known to confer beneficial effects on various organs in mice.
However, it was not known whether young plasma rejuvenates cells and tissues at the …

RNAAgeCalc: A multi-tissue transcriptional age calculator

X Ren, PF Kuan - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Biological aging reflects decline in physiological functions and is an effective indicator of
morbidity and mortality. Numerous epigenetic age calculators are available, however …

Quantitative comparison of within-sample heterogeneity scores for DNA methylation data

M Scherer, A Nebel, A Franke, J Walter… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark with important regulatory roles in cellular identity and
can be quantified at base resolution using bisulfite sequencing. Most studies are limited to …

The environment as a determinant of successful aging or frailty

A Di Ciaula, P Portincasa - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2020 - Elsevier
The number of elderly persons is rising rapidly, and healthspan is a key factor in determining
the well-being of individuals and the sustainability of national health systems. Environmental …

Understanding the interplay between health disparities and epigenomics

VJ Mancilla, NC Peeri, T Silzer, R Basha, M Felini… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Social epigenomics has emerged as an integrative field of research focused on identification
of socio-environmental factors, their influence on human biology through epigenomic …

[HTML][HTML] ASXL1 mutation in clonal hematopoiesis

T Fujino, T Kitamura - Experimental Hematology, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have enhanced our knowledge about
several diseases. Coupled with easy accessibility to blood samples, hematology plays a …

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 …

Body weight and high‐fat diet are associated with epigenetic aging in female members of the BXD murine family

JV Sandoval‐Sierra, AHB Helbing, EG Williams… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation (DNAm) is shaped by genetic and environmental factors and modulated by
aging. Here, we examine interrelations between epigenetic aging, body weight (BW), and …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation-based age estimation in pediatric healthy tissues and brain tumors

T Kling, A Wenger, H Caren - Aging (Albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Several DNA methylation clocks have been developed to reflect chronological age of human
tissues, but most clocks have been trained on adult samples. The rapid methylome changes …