Epigenetic clock: A promising biomarker and practical tool in aging

R Duan, Q Fu, Y Sun, Q Li - Ageing Research Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
As a complicated process, aging is characterized by various changes at the cellular,
subcellular and nuclear levels, one of which is epigenetic aging. With increasing awareness …

Epigenetic aging as a biomarker of dementia and related outcomes: a systematic review

A Zhou, Z Wu, AZ Zaw Phyo, D Torres… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Biological aging may be a robust biomarker of dementia or cognitive
performance. This systematic review synthesized the evidence for an association between …

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 …

Associations of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and education with 13 epigenetic clocks in a nationally representative US sample: the Health and Retirement Study

EM Crimmins, B Thyagarajan, ME Levine… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Many DNA methylation-based indicators have been developed as summary
measures of epigenetic aging. We examine the associations between 13 epigenetic clocks …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic measures of ageing predict the prevalence and incidence of leading causes of death and disease burden

RF Hillary, AJ Stevenson, DL McCartney… - Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Background Individuals of the same chronological age display different rates of biological
ageing. A number of measures of biological age have been proposed which harness age …

[HTML][HTML] High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons

JA Anderson, RA Johnston, AJ Lea, FA Campos… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging, for virtually all life, is inescapable. However, within populations, biological aging rates
vary. Understanding sources of variation in this process is central to understanding the …

[HTML][HTML] Education and lifestyle factors are associated with DNA methylation clocks in older African Americans

W Zhao, F Ammous, S Ratliff, J Liu, M Yu… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation (DNAm) clocks are important biomarkers of cellular aging and are
associated with a variety of age-related chronic diseases and all-cause mortality. Examining …

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 …

The socioeconomic gradient in epigenetic ageing clocks: evidence from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis and the health and retirement study

LL Schmitz, W Zhao, SM Ratliff, J Goodwin, J Miao… - Epigenetics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic clocks have been widely used to predict disease risk in multiple tissues or cells.
Their success as a measure of biological ageing has prompted research on the connection …

Epigenetic aging in older breast cancer survivors and noncancer controls: preliminary findings from the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study

KE Rentscher, TN Bethea, W Zhai, BJ Small, X Zhou… - Cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cancer and its treatments may accelerate aging in survivors; however, research
has not examined epigenetic markers of aging in longer term breast cancer survivors. This …