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 …

DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate 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 …

Accelerated biological aging and risk of depression and anxiety: evidence from 424,299 UK Biobank participants

X Gao, T Geng, M Jiang, N Huang, Y Zheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that biological processes of aging may contribute to poor mental
health in late life. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated prospective associations between …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan

ME Levine, AT Lu, A Quach, BH Chen… - Aging (albany …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Identifying reliable biomarkers of aging is a major goal in geroscience. While the first
generation of epigenetic biomarkers of aging were developed using chronological age as a …

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 …

Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm

DW Belsky, A Caspi, L Arseneault, A Baccarelli… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Biological aging is the gradual, progressive decline in system integrity that occurs with
advancing chronological age, causing morbidity and disability. Measurements of the pace of …

Biological Versus Chronological Aging: JACC Focus Seminar

MR Hamczyk, RM Nevado, A Barettino, V Fuster… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
Aging is the main risk factor for vascular disease and ensuing cardiovascular and
cerebrovascular events, the leading causes of death worldwide. In a progressively aging …

Longitudinal trajectories, correlations and mortality associations of nine biological ages across 20-years follow-up

X Li, A Ploner, Y Wang, PKE Magnusson, C Reynolds… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Biological age measurements (BAs) assess aging-related physiological change and predict
health risks among individuals of the same chronological age (CA). Multiple BAs have been …

Biological age predictors

J Jylhävä, NL Pedersen, S Hägg - EBioMedicine, 2017 - thelancet.com
The search for reliable indicators of biological age, rather than chronological age, has been
ongoing for over three decades, and until recently, largely without success. Advances in the …