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Determinants of accelerated metabolomic and epigenetic aging in a UK cohort
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Markers of biological aging have potential utility in primary care and public health. We developed a model of age based on untargeted metabolic profiling across multiple platforms, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry in urine and serum, within a large sample ( N = 2,239) from the UK Airwave cohort. We validated a subset of model predictors in a Finnish cohort including repeat measurements from 2,144 individuals. We investigated the determinants of accelerated aging, including lifestyle and psychological risk factors for premature mortality. The metabolomic age model was well correlated with chronological age (mean r = .86 across independent test sets). Increased metabolomic age acceleration (mAA) was associated after false discovery rate (FDR) correction with overweight/obesity, diabetes, heavy alcohol use and depression. DNA methylation age acceleration measures were uncorrelated with mAA. Increased DNA methylation phenotypic age acceleration ( N = 1,110) was associated after FDR correction with heavy alcohol use, hypertension and low income. In conclusion, metabolomics is a promising approach for the assessment of biological age and appears complementary to established epigenetic clocks.
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“Robinson et al.120 additionally assessed mass spectrometry metabolomic ageing clocks for the enrichment of biological pathways and identified enrichments for the metabolism of several vitamins, amino acids and xenobiotics.”
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“Metabolomic age acceleration correlated with triglyceride levels, obesity, heavy drinking, diabetes mellitus, depressive symptoms, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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“Furthermore, metabolomic clocks have demonstrated lower age prediction accuracy than other omics data types despite training on extremely large sample sizes, and effect sizes for ageing traits have been modest113,116–121.”
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“and Robinson et al.’s metabolomic age gap had no correlation with the Horvath, Hannum and PhenoAge clocks in the same cohort, yet there was some overlap in the correlation between age gap and phenotypes tested120.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Robinson, O., Chadeau Hyam, M., Karaman, I., Climaco Pinto, R., Ala-Korpela, M., Handakas, E., Fiorito, G., Gao, H., Heard, A., Jarvelin, M., Lewis, M., Pazoki, R., Polidoro, S., Tzoulaki, I., Wielscher, M., Elliott, P., & Vineis, P.
- Affiliations
- MRC Centre for Environment and Health (GB)
- MRC Centre for Environment and Health Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health Imperial College London London UK
- Computational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu Oulu Finland
- University of Sassari (IT)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Italian institute for Genomic Medicine (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Robinson, Oliver
- ORCID
- Venue
- Aging Cell
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-05-03
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- e13149-e13149
- ISSN
- 1474-9718 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-9726
- PMC
- PMC7294785
- OpenAlex
- W3021249782
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 87
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 9
- FWCI
- 6.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Aging Cell (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- UnissResearch (Università degli Studi di Sassari) (submittedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (633666, 633595, 733206)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Keywords
- biological aging, DNA methylation age, accelerated aging, untargeted metabolomics, lifestyle risk factors, alcohol consumption, depression, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, socioeconomic status, epigenetic clocks, cross-cohort validation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aging, Female, United Kingdom, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Cohort Studies, DNA Methylation, Metabolomics, Young Adult, Epigenomics
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