Telomere length as a marker of biological age: state-of-the-art, open issues, and future perspectives

A Vaiserman, D Krasnienkov - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Telomere shortening is a well-known hallmark of both cellular senescence and organismal
aging. An accelerated rate of telomere attrition is also a common feature of age-related …

Ranking biomarkers of aging by citation profiling and effort scoring

A Hartmann, C Hartmann, R Secci, A Hermann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aging affects most living organisms and includes the processes that reduce health and
survival. The chronological and the biological age of individuals can differ remarkably, and …

Disparities in the pace of biological aging among midlife adults of the same chronological age have implications for future frailty risk and policy

ML Elliott, A Caspi, RM Houts, A Ambler, JM Broadbent… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Some humans age faster than others. Variation in biological aging can be measured in
midlife, but the implications of this variation are poorly understood. We tested associations …

A toolkit for quantification of biological age from blood chemistry and organ function test data: BioAge

D Kwon, DW Belsky - Geroscience, 2021 - Springer
Methods to quantify biological aging are emerging as new measurement tools for
epidemiology and population science and have been proposed as surrogate measures for …

[HTML][HTML] DeepMAge: a methylation aging clock developed with deep learning

F Galkin, P Mamoshina, K Kochetov… - Aging and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA methylation aging clocks have become an invaluable tool in biogerontology research
since their inception in 2013. Today, a variety of machine learning approaches have been …

Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood

EJ Hamlat, AA Prather, S Horvath… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Given associations linking early life adversity, pubertal timing, and biological
aging, we examined the direct and indirect effects of early life trauma on adult biological …

An integrative study of five biological clocks in somatic and mental health

R Jansen, LKM Han, JE Verhoeven, KA Aberg… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Biological clocks have been developed at different molecular levels and were found to be
more advanced in the presence of somatic illness and mental disorders. However, it is …

Evaluating the beneficial effects of dietary restrictions: A framework for precision nutrigeroscience

KA Wilson, M Chamoli, TA Hilsabeck, M Pandey… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Dietary restriction (DR) has long been viewed as the most robust nongenetic means to
extend lifespan and healthspan. Many aging-associated mechanisms are nutrient …

Genetic associations for two biological age measures point to distinct aging phenotypes

CL Kuo, LC Pilling, Z Liu, JL Atkins, ME Levine - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological age measures outperform chronological age in predicting various aging
outcomes, yet little is known regarding genetic predisposition. We performed genome‐wide …

Applying a life course biological age framework to improving the care of individuals with adult cancers: review and research recommendations

JS Mandelblatt, TA Ahles, ME Lippman, C Isaacs… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The practice of oncology will increasingly involve the care of a growing
population of individuals with midlife and late-life cancers. Managing cancer in these …