Making sense of the ageing methylome

K Seale, S Horvath, A Teschendorff, N Eynon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over time, the human DNA methylation landscape accrues substantial damage, which has
been associated with a broad range of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular …

DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

Inflammation, epigenetics, and metabolism converge to cell senescence and ageing: the regulation and intervention

X Zhu, Z Chen, W Shen, G Huang, JM Sedivy… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Remarkable progress in ageing research has been achieved over the past decades.
General perceptions and experimental evidence pinpoint that the decline of physical …

[HTML][HTML] Potential reversal of epigenetic age using a diet and lifestyle intervention: a pilot randomized clinical trial

KN Fitzgerald, R Hodges, D Hanes, E Stack… - Aging (albany …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Manipulations to slow biological aging and extend healthspan are of interest given the
societal and healthcare costs of our aging population. Herein we report on a randomized …

Sexual-dimorphism in human immune system aging

EJ Márquez, C Chung, R Marches, RJ Rossi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Differences in immune function and responses contribute to health-and life-span disparities
between sexes. However, the role of sex in immune system aging is not well understood …

The roles of DNA, RNA and histone methylation in ageing and cancer

EM Michalak, ML Burr, AJ Bannister… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin is a macromolecular complex predominantly comprising DNA, histone proteins
and RNA. The methylation of chromatin components is highly conserved as it helps …

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 …

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 …

Personal aging markers and ageotypes revealed by deep longitudinal profiling

S Ahadi, W Zhou, SM Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The molecular changes that occur with aging are not well understood,,–. Here, we
performed longitudinal and deep multiomics profiling of 106 healthy individuals from 29 to …

Epigenetic age prediction

DJ Simpson, T Chandra - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced age is the main common risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease and
neurodegeneration. Yet, more is known about the molecular basis of any of these groups of …