Epigenetic clock: A promising biomarker and practical tool in aging

R Duan, Q Fu, Y Sun, Q Li - Ageing Research Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
As a complicated process, aging is characterized by various changes at the cellular,
subcellular and nuclear levels, one of which is epigenetic aging. With increasing awareness …

Back to the future: epigenetic clock plasticity towards healthy aging

K Declerck, WV Berghe - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2018 - Elsevier
Aging is the most important risk factor for major human lifestyle diseases, including cancer,
neurological and cardiometabolic disorders. Due to the complex interplay between genetics …

How to slow down the ticking clock: age-associated epigenetic alterations and related interventions to extend life span

AM Galow, S Peleg - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epigenetic alterations pose one major hallmark of organismal aging. Here, we provide an
overview on recent findings describing the epigenetic changes that arise during aging and …

[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 …

Epigenetic aging: more than just a clock when it comes to cancer

M Yu, WD Hazelton, GE Luebeck, WM Grady - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
The incidence of cancer, adjusted for secular trends, is directly related to age, and advanced
chronologic age is one of the most significant risk factors for cancer. Organismal aging is …

Epigenetic age prediction

DJ Simpson, T Chandra - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced age is the main common risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease and
neurodegeneration. Yet, more is known about the molecular basis of any of these groups of …

Clock work: Deconstructing the epigenetic clock signals in aging, disease, and reprogramming

ME Levine, A Higgins-Chen, K Thrush, C Minteer… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Epigenetic clocks have come to be regarded as powerful tools for estimating aging.
However, a major drawback in their application is our lack of mechanistic understanding. We …

DNA methylation-based biomarkers and the epigenetic clock theory of ageing

S Horvath, K Raj - Nature reviews genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying and validating molecular targets of interventions that extend the human health
span and lifespan has been difficult, as most clinical biomarkers are not sufficiently …

“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 …

Current perspectives on the cellular and molecular features of epigenetic ageing

K Raj, S Horvath - Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been noted for quite some time that DNA methylation levels decline with age. The
significance of this change remained unknown until it became possible to measure …