Causal effect of gut microbiota on DNA methylation phenotypic age acceleration: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

Y Huang, X Chen, J Ye, H Yi, X Zheng - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The causal relationship between gut microbiota and DNA methylation phenotypic age
acceleration remains unclear. This study aims to examine the causal effect of gut microbiota …

Epigenetic and proteomic signatures associate with clonal hematopoiesis expansion rate

TM Mack, MA Raddatz, Y Pershad, DC Nachun… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), whereby somatic mutations in
hematopoietic stem cells confer a selective advantage and drive clonal expansion, not only …

[PDF][PDF] Causal epigenetic age uncouples damage and adaptation

K Ying, H Liu, AE Tarkhov, AT Lu, S Horvath, Z Kutalik… - bioRxiv, 2022 - scholar.archive.org
Machine learning models based on DNA methylation can be used to predict the age of
biological 17 samples, but their interpretability is limited due to the lack of causal inferences …

Analysis of epigenetic clocks links yoga, sleep, education, reduced meat intake, coffee, and a SOCS2 gene variant to slower epigenetic aging

R Noroozi, J Rudnicka, A Pisarek, B Wysocka, A Masny… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
DNA methylation (DNAm) clocks hold promise for measuring biological age, useful for
guiding clinical interventions and forensic identification. This study compared the commonly …

Causal relationship between depression and aging: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study

X Luo, Z Ruan, L Liu - Aging clinical and experimental research, 2023 - Springer
Background The causal relationship and the direction of the effect between depression and
aging remain controversial. Methods We used a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian …

Assessing causal associations between neurodegenerative diseases and neurological tumors with biological aging: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

Z Zhang, N Liu, X Pan, C Zhang, Y Yang, X Li… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Aging is a significant risk factor for many neurodegenerative diseases and
neurological tumors. Previous studies indicate that the frailty index, facial aging, telomere …

An explainable AI framework for interpretable biological age

W Qiu, H Chen, M Kaeberlein, SI Lee - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Background An individual's biological age is a measurement of health status and provides a
mechanistic understanding of aging. Age clocks estimate a biological age of an individual …

Identification of a longevity gene through evolutionary rate covariation of insect mito-nuclear genomes

M Tao, J Chen, C Cui, Y Xu, J Xu, Z Shi, J Yun, J Zhang… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Oxidative phosphorylation, essential for energy metabolism and linked to the regulation of
longevity, involves mitochondrial and nuclear genes. The functions of these genes and their …

Aging and cancer epigenetics: Where do the paths fork?

RF Pérez, JR Tejedor, AF Fernández, MF Fraga - Aging Cell, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aging and cancer are clearly associated processes, at both the epidemiological and
molecular level. Epigenetic mechanisms are good candidates to explain the molecular links …

DNA methylation-based age acceleration observed in IDH wild-type glioblastoma is associated with better outcome—including in elderly patients

P Bady, C Marosi, M Weller, BH Grønberg… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2022 - Springer
Elderly patients represent a growing proportion of individuals with glioblastoma, who
however, are often excluded from clinical trials owing to poor expected prognosis. We aimed …