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 …

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] Cell-type-specific aging clocks to quantify aging and rejuvenation in neurogenic regions of the brain

MT Buckley, ED Sun, BM George, L Liu, N Schaum… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
The diversity of cell types is a challenge for quantifying aging and its reversal. Here we
develop 'aging clocks' based on single-cell transcriptomics to characterize cell-type-specific …

Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming

D Gill, A Parry, F Santos, H Okkenhaug, CD Todd… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Ageing is the gradual decline in organismal fitness that occurs over time leading to tissue
dysfunction and disease. At the cellular level, ageing is associated with reduced function …

[HTML][HTML] Biomarkers of aging

Aging Biomarker Consortium, H Bao, J Cao… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
Aging biomarkers are a combination of biological parameters to (i) assess age-related
changes,(ii) track the physiological aging process, and (iii) predict the transition into a …

Emerging rejuvenation strategies—Reducing the biological age

B Zhang, A Trapp, C Kerepesi, VN Gladyshev - Aging Cell, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several interventions have recently emerged that were proposed to reverse rather than just
attenuate aging, but the criteria for what it takes to achieve rejuvenation remain …

The shelterin protein expansion of telomere dynamics: Linking early life adversity, life history, and the hallmarks of aging

SE Wolf, I Shalev - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Aging is characterized by functional decline occurring alongside changes to several
hallmarks of aging. One of the hallmarks includes attrition of repeated DNA sequences …

[HTML][HTML] ExplaiNAble BioLogical Age (ENABL Age): an artificial intelligence framework for interpretable biological age

W Qiu, H Chen, M Kaeberlein, SI Lee - The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Biological age is a measure of health that offers insights into ageing. The
existing age clocks, although valuable, often trade off accuracy and interpretability. We …

[HTML][HTML] Biological age predictors: the status quo and future trends

VV Erema, AY Yakovchik, DA Kashtanova… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is no single universal biomarker yet to estimate overall health status and longevity
prospects. Moreover, a consensual approach to the very concept of aging and the means of …

[HTML][HTML] Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation

DH Meyer, B Schumacher - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Aging clocks have provided one of the most important recent breakthroughs in the biology of
aging, and may provide indicators for the effectiveness of interventions in the aging process …