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 …

Many chronological aging clocks can be found throughout the epigenome: Implications for quantifying biological aging

HL Porter, CA Brown, X Roopnarinesingh, CB Giles… - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic alterations are a hallmark of aging and age‐related diseases. Computational
models using DNA methylation data can create “epigenetic clocks” which are proposed to …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation biomarkers in aging and age-related diseases

Y Salameh, Y Bejaoui, N El Hajj - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent research efforts provided compelling evidence of genome-wide DNA methylation
alterations in aging and age-related disease. It is currently well established that DNA …

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

AT Lu, Z Fei, A Haghani, TR Robeck, JA Zoller, CZ Li… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Aging, often considered a result of random cellular damage, can be accurately estimated
using DNA methylation profiles, the foundation of pan-tissue epigenetic clocks. Here, we …

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

AT Lu, Z Fei, A Haghani, TR Robeck, JA Zoller, CZ Li… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Aging is often perceived as a degenerative process resulting from random accrual of cellular
damage over time. Despite this, age can be accurately estimated by epigenetic clocks based …

The relationship between epigenetic age and the hallmarks of aging in human cells

S Kabacik, D Lowe, L Fransen, M Leonard, SL Ang… - Nature aging, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic clocks are mathematically derived age estimators that are based on
combinations of methylation values that change with age at specific CpGs in the genome …

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 …

“Epigenetic clocks”: Theory and applications in human biology

CP Ryan - American Journal of Human Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
All humans age, but how we age—and how fast—differs considerably from person to
person. This deviation between apparent age and chronological age is often referred to as …

Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex

GL Shireby, JP Davies, PT Francis, J Burrage… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human DNA methylation data have been used to develop biomarkers of ageing, referred to
as 'epigenetic clocks', which have been widely used to identify differences between …

New targeted approaches for epigenetic age predictions

Y Han, J Franzen, T Stiehl, M Gobs, CC Kuo, M Nikolić… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Age-associated DNA methylation changes provide a promising biomarker for
the aging process. While genome-wide DNA methylation profiles enable robust age …