Biological aging processes underlying cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease

MM Gonzales, VR Garbarino, E Pollet… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are among the top contributors to
disability and mortality in later life. As with many chronic conditions, aging is the single most …

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 …

A complex systems approach to aging biology

AA Cohen, L Ferrucci, T Fülöp, D Gravel, N Hao… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Having made substantial progress understanding molecules, cells, genes and pathways,
aging biology research is now moving toward integration of these parts, attempting to …

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 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging

JH Yang, CA Petty, T Dixon-McDougall… - Aging (Albany …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A hallmark of eukaryotic aging is a loss of epigenetic information, a process that can be
reversed. We have previously shown that the ectopic induction of the Yamanaka factors …

Associations of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and education with 13 epigenetic clocks in a nationally representative US sample: the Health and Retirement Study

EM Crimmins, B Thyagarajan, ME Levine… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Many DNA methylation-based indicators have been developed as summary
measures of epigenetic aging. We examine the associations between 13 epigenetic clocks …

In utero exposure to the Great Depression is reflected in late-life epigenetic aging signatures

LL Schmitz, V Duque - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Research on maternal-fetal epigenetic programming argues that adverse exposures to the
intrauterine environment can have long-term effects on adult morbidity and mortality …

Epigenetic aging: Biological age prediction and informing a mechanistic theory of aging

A Li, Z Koch, T Ideker - Journal of internal medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have shown that epigenetic age—an individual's degree of aging based
on patterns of DNA methylation—can be computed and is associated with an array of factors …

[HTML][HTML] 60 years of healthy aging: On definitions, biomarkers, scores and challenges

LC Behr, A Simm, A Kluttig, A Grosskopf - Ageing Research Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and objective As the proportion of aging people in our population increases
steadily, global strategies accompanied by extensive research are necessary to tackle …