Biological aging processes underlying cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease

MM Gonzales, VR Garbarino, E Pollet… - The Journal of clinical …, 2022‏ - jci.org
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are among the top contributors to
disability and mortality in later life. As with many chronic conditions, aging is the single most …

Making sense of the ageing methylome

K Seale, S Horvath, A Teschendorff, N Eynon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Over time, the human DNA methylation landscape accrues substantial damage, which has
been associated with a broad range of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular …

A computational solution for bolstering reliability of epigenetic clocks: implications for clinical trials and longitudinal tracking

AT Higgins-Chen, KL Thrush, Y Wang, CJ Minteer… - Nature aging, 2022‏ - nature.com
Epigenetic clocks are widely used aging biomarkers calculated from DNA methylation data,
but this data can be surprisingly unreliable. Here we show that technical noise produces …

A complex systems approach to aging biology

AA Cohen, L Ferrucci, T Fülöp, D Gravel, N Hao… - Nature aging, 2022‏ - nature.com
Having made substantial progress understanding molecules, cells, genes and pathways,
aging biology research is now moving toward integration of these parts, attempting to …

The relationship between epigenetic age and the hallmarks of aging in human cells

S Kabacik, D Lowe, L Fransen, M Leonard, SL Ang… - Nature aging, 2022‏ - nature.com
Epigenetic clocks are mathematically derived age estimators that are based on
combinations of methylation values that change with age at specific CpGs in the genome …

Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging

JH Yang, CA Petty, T Dixon-McDougall… - Aging (Albany …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A hallmark of eukaryotic aging is a loss of epigenetic information, a process that can be
reversed. We have previously shown that the ectopic induction of the Yamanaka factors …

[HTML][HTML] 60 years of healthy aging: on definitions, biomarkers, scores and challenges

LC Behr, A Simm, A Kluttig, A Grosskopf - Ageing research reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Background and objective As the proportion of aging people in our population increases
steadily, global strategies accompanied by extensive research are necessary to tackle …

PRC2-AgeIndex as a universal biomarker of aging and rejuvenation

M Moqri, A Cipriano, DJ Simpson, S Rasouli… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAm) is one of the most reliable biomarkers of aging across mammalian
tissues. While the age-dependent global loss of DNAm has been well characterized, DNAm …

Epigenetic aging: Biological age prediction and informing a mechanistic theory of aging

A Li, Z Koch, T Ideker - Journal of internal medicine, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have shown that epigenetic age—an individual's degree of aging based
on patterns of DNA methylation—can be computed and is associated with an array of factors …

Associations of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and education with 13 epigenetic clocks in a nationally representative US sample: the Health and Retirement Study

EM Crimmins, B Thyagarajan, ME Levine… - The Journals of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Many DNA methylation-based indicators have been developed as summary
measures of epigenetic aging. We examine the associations between 13 epigenetic clocks …