Molecular mechanisms of environmental exposures and human disease

H Wu, CM Eckhardt, AA Baccarelli - Nature reviews genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of disease risk for common complex disorders is attributable to
environmental exposures and pollutants. An appreciation of how environmental pollutants …

Ageing as a software design flaw

JP de Magalhães - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Ageing is inherent to all human beings, yet why we age remains a hotly contested topic.
Most mechanistic explanations of ageing posit that ageing is caused by the accumulation of …

Effect of long-term caloric restriction on DNA methylation measures of biological aging in healthy adults from the CALERIE trial

R Waziry, CP Ryan, DL Corcoran, KM Huffman… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
The geroscience hypothesis proposes that therapy to slow or reverse molecular changes
that occur with aging can delay or prevent multiple chronic diseases and extend healthy …

Biomarkers of aging for the identification and evaluation of longevity interventions

M Moqri, C Herzog, JR Poganik, J Justice, DW Belsky… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
With the rapid expansion of aging biology research, the identification and evaluation of
longevity interventions in humans have become key goals of this field. Biomarkers of aging …

Molecular mechanisms of vascular health: insights from vascular aging and calcification

NR Sutton, R Malhotra, C St. Hilaire… - … , and vascular biology, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death worldwide, especially beyond
the age of 65 years, with the vast majority of morbidity and mortality due to myocardial …

Psychological and biological mechanisms linking trauma with cardiovascular disease risk

JA Sumner, S Cleveland, T Chen, JL Gradus - Translational psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, and
experiences of psychological trauma have been associated with subsequent CVD onset …

Racial and ethnic residential segregation and monocyte DNA methylation age acceleration

MT Hicken, J Dou, KN Kershaw, Y Liu, A Hajat… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Neighborhood segregation and poverty may be important drivers of health
inequities. Epigenomic factors, including DNA methylation clocks that may mark underlying …

DNA methylation age at birth and childhood: performance of epigenetic clocks and characteristics associated with epigenetic age acceleration in the Project Viva …

AK Bozack, SL Rifas-Shiman, DR Gold, ZM Laubach… - Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) and epigenetic gestational age acceleration
(EGAA) are biomarkers of physiological development and may be affected by the perinatal …

[HTML][HTML] DNAmFitAge: biological age indicator incorporating physical fitness

KM McGreevy, Z Radak, F Torma, M Jokai… - Aging (Albany …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Physical fitness is a well-known correlate of health and the aging process and DNA
methylation (DNAm) data can capture aging via epigenetic clocks. However, current …

Systemic inflammation and biological aging in the Health and Retirement Study

HCS Meier, C Mitchell, T Karadimas, JD Faul - GeroScience, 2023 - Springer
Chronic, low-level systemic inflammation associated with aging, or inflammaging, is a risk
factor for several chronic diseases and mortality. Using data from the Health and Retirement …