Validation of biomarkers of aging

M Moqri, C Herzog, JR Poganik, K Ying, JN Justice… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The search for biomarkers that quantify biological aging (particularly 'omic'-based
biomarkers) has intensified in recent years. Such biomarkers could predict aging-related …

The ticking of aging clocks

JDJ Han - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Computational models that measure biological age and aging rate regardless of
chronological age are called aging clocks. The underlying counting mechanisms of the …

Insights into ageing rates comparison across tissues from recalibrating cerebellum DNA methylation clock

Y Wang, OA Grant, X Zhai, KD Mcdonald-Maier… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
DNA methylation (DNAm)-based age clocks have been studied extensively as a biomarker
of human ageing and a risk factor for age-related diseases. Despite different tissues having …

Reversal of biological age in multiple rat organs by young porcine plasma fraction

S Horvath, K Singh, K Raj, SI Khairnar, A Sanghavi… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
Young blood plasma is known to confer beneficial effects on various organs in mice and
rats. However, it was not known whether plasma from young adult pigs rejuvenates old rat …

Short sleep and insomnia are associated with accelerated epigenetic age

CDJ Kusters, ET Klopack, EM Crimmins… - Psychosomatic …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective Short sleep and insomnia are each associated with a greater risk of age-related
disease, which suggests that insufficient sleep may accelerate biological aging. We examine …

Quantifying the stochastic component of epigenetic aging

H Tong, VB Dwaraka, Q Chen, Q Luo, JA Lasky-Su… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation clocks can accurately estimate chronological age and, to some extent, also
biological age, yet the process by which age-associated DNA methylation (DNAm) changes …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-type-specific effects of age and sex on human cortical neurons

JF Chien, H Liu, BA Wang, C Luo, A Bartlett… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Altered transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of brain cell types may contribute to
cognitive changes with advanced age. Using single-nucleus multi-omic DNA methylation …

Clarifying the biological and statistical assumptions of cross-sectional biological age predictors: an elaborate illustration using synthetic and real data

MH Sluiskes, JJ Goeman, M Beekman… - BMC Medical Research …, 2024 - Springer
Background There is divergence in the rate at which people age. The concept of biological
age is postulated to capture this variability, and hence to better represent an individual's true …

Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio in men are associated with decreased Pheno-/GrimAge and DNA-methylation based PAI1

CDJ Kusters, KC Paul, AT Lu, L Ferruci, BR Ritz… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
Sex hormones are hypothesized to drive sex-specific health disparities. Here, we study the
association between sex steroid hormones and DNA methylation-based (DNAm) biomarkers …

Nature of epigenetic aging from a single-cell perspective

AE Tarkhov, T Lindstrom-Vautrin, S Zhang, K Ying… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Age-related changes in DNA methylation (DNAm) form the basis of the most robust
predictors of age—epigenetic clocks—but a clear mechanistic understanding of exactly …