Measuring biological age using omics data

J Rutledge, H Oh, T Wyss-Coray - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Age is the key risk factor for diseases and disabilities of the elderly. Efforts to tackle age-
related diseases and increase healthspan have suggested targeting the ageing process …

DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations

PD Yousefi, M Suderman, R Langdon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation data have become a valuable source of information for biomarker
development, because, unlike static genetic risk estimates, DNA methylation varies …

Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation GrimAge version 2

AT Lu, AM Binder, J Zhang, Q Yan, AP Reiner… - Aging (Albany …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We previously described a DNA methylation (DNAm) based biomarker of human mortality
risk DNAm GrimAge. Here we describe version 2 of GrimAge (trained on individuals aged …

Physical activity is associated with slower epigenetic ageing—Findings from the Rhineland study

FAU Fox, D Liu, MMB Breteler, NA Aziz - Aging Cell, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic ageing, ie, age‐associated changes in DNA methylation patterns, is a sensitive
marker of biological ageing, a major determinant of morbidity and functional decline. We …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis and fine-mapping in Alzheimer's disease

J Lake, C Warly Solsberg, JJ Kim, J Acosta-Uribe… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease are predominantly carried
out in European ancestry individuals despite the known variation in genetic architecture and …

Multi-omic underpinnings of epigenetic aging and human longevity

LA Mavromatis, DB Rosoff, AS Bell, J Jung… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Biological aging is accompanied by increasing morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs;
however, its molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we use multi-omic …

The role of adolescent lifestyle habits in biological aging: A prospective twin study

A Kankaanpää, A Tolvanen, A Heikkinen, J Kaprio… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Background: Adolescence is a stage of fast growth and development. Exposures during
puberty can have long-term effects on health in later life. This study aims to investigate the …

Causality-enriched epigenetic age uncouples damage and adaptation

K Ying, H Liu, AE Tarkhov, MC Sadler, AT Lu, M Moqri… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning models based on DNA methylation data can predict biological
age but often lack causal insights. By harnessing large-scale genetic data through …

Cardiovascular health and four epigenetic clocks

YH Lo, WY Lin - Clinical Epigenetics, 2022 - Springer
Background Cardiovascular health (CVH) was defined by the American Heart Association
as an integrative idealness of seven clinical or lifestyle factors. Based on populations of …