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

2020· article· en· 661 citations· W3022131036 on OpenAlex· 10.7554/elife.54870

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Abstract

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 aging are needed as surrogate endpoints in trials of therapies designed to prevent disease by slowing biological aging. We report a blood-DNA-methylation measure that is sensitive to variation in pace of biological aging among individuals born the same year. We first modeled change-over-time in 18 biomarkers tracking organ-system integrity across 12 years of follow-up in n = 954 members of the Dunedin Study born in 1972-1973. Rates of change in each biomarker over ages 26-38 years were composited to form a measure of aging-related decline, termed Pace-of-Aging. Elastic-net regression was used to develop a DNA-methylation predictor of Pace-of-Aging, called DunedinPoAm for Dunedin(P)ace(o)f(A)ging(m)ethylation. Validation analysis in cohort studies and the CALERIE trial provide proof-of-principle for DunedinPoAm as a single-time-point measure of a person's pace of biological aging.

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Venue
eLife
Topic
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Field
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Canadian institutions
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNational Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNational Institute of Environmental Health SciencesEconomic and Social Research CouncilCanadian Institute for Advanced ResearchMedical Research CouncilNational Institute on AgingJacobs FoundationLundbeckfondenWellcome Trust
Keywords
PaceBiomarkerBiological ageDNA methylationHealthy agingCohortBiologyMedicineBioinformaticsGerontologyInternal medicineGeneticsGene
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