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 …

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 …

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] A multi-tissue full lifespan epigenetic clock for mice

MJ Thompson, K Chwiałkowska, L Rubbi… - Aging (Albany …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human DNA-methylation data have been used to develop highly accurate biomarkers of
aging (" epigenetic clocks"). Recent studies demonstrate that similar epigenetic clocks for …

Tracking the epigenetic clock across the human life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort data

RE Marioni, M Suderman, BH Chen… - The Journals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Epigenetic clocks based on DNA methylation yield high correlations with
chronological age in cross-sectional data. Due to a paucity of longitudinal data, it is not …

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 …

Multi-tissue DNA methylation age predictor in mouse

TM Stubbs, MJ Bonder, AK Stark, F Krueger… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background DNA methylation changes at a discrete set of sites in the human genome are
predictive of chronological and biological age. However, it is not known whether these …

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 …

A pan-tissue DNA-methylation epigenetic clock based on deep learning

LP de Lima Camillo, LR Lapierre, R Singh - npj Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Several age predictors based on DNA methylation, dubbed epigenetic clocks, have been
created in recent years, with the vast majority based on regularized linear regression. This …