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DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

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Chen, Brian H., Marioni, Riccardo E., Colicino, Elena, Peters, Marjolein J., Ward-Caviness, Cavin K., Tsai, Pei-Chien, Roetker, Nicholas S., Just, Allan C. +58 more·2016·Aging

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Aging | doi:10.18632/aging.101020. Brian H. Chen, Riccardo E. Marioni, Elena Colicino, Marjolein J. Peters, Cavin K. Ward-Caviness, Pei-Chien Tsai, Nicholas S. Roetker, Allan C. Just, Ellen W. Demerath, Weihua Guan, Jan Bressler, Myriam Fornage, Stephanie Studenski, Amy R. Vandiver, Ann Zenobia Moore, Toshiko Tanaka, Douglas P. Kiel, Liming Liang, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Schwartz, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Joanne M. Murabito, Stefania Bandinelli, Dena G. Hernandez, David Melzer, Michael Nalls, Luke C. Pilling, Timothy R. Price, Andrew B. Singleton, Christian Gieger, Rolf Holle, Anja Kretschmer, Florian Kronenberg, Sonja Kunze, Jakob Linseisen, Christine Meisinger, Wolfgang Rathmann, Melanie Waldenberger, Peter M. Visscher, Sonia Shah, Naomi R. Wray, Allan F. McRae, Oscar H. Franco, Albert Hofman, André G. Uitterlinden, Devin Absher, Themistocles Assimes, Morgan E. Levine, Ake T. Lu, Philip S. Tsao, Lifang Hou, JoAnn E. Manson, Cara L. Carty, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Alexander P. Reiner, Tim D. Spector, Andrew P. Feinberg, Daniel Levy, Andrea Baccarelli, Joyce van Meurs, Jordana T. Bell, Annette Peters, Ian J. Deary, James S. Pankow, Luigi Ferrucci, Steve Horvath

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  • Individuals with positive age gaps, termed age acceleration, are at greater risk of mortality and some diseases of ageing such as heart disease, metabolic syndrome and certain cancers.

    “These hypotheses have been supported by observations that individuals with positive age gaps, termed age acceleration, are at greater risk of mortality and some diseases of ageing such as heart disease, metabolic syndrome and certain cancers46–50.”

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    “However, mortality risk, which is widely used as a measure of ‘global’ biological age, has shown an overall weak and variable association with these clocks46,58, which raises questions as to what biology they actually measure.”

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Chen, B. H., Marioni, R. E., Colicino, E., Peters, M. J., Ward-Caviness, C. K., Tsai, P.-C., Roetker, N. S., Just, A. C., Demerath, E. W., Guan, W., Bressler, J., Fornage, M., Studenski, S., Vandiver, A. R., Moore, A. Z., Tanaka, T., Kiel, D. P., Liang, L., Vokonas, P., Schwartz, J., Lunetta, K. L., Murabito, J. M., Bandinelli, S., Hernandez, D. G., Melzer, D., Nalls, M., Pilling, L. C., Price, T. R., Singleton, A. B., Gieger, C., Holle, R., Kretschmer, A., Kronenberg, F., Kunze, S., Linseisen, J., Meisinger, C., Rathmann, W., Waldenberger, M., Visscher, P. M., Shah, S., Wray, N. R., McRae, A. F., Franco, O. H., Hofman, A., Uitterlinden, A. G., Absher, D., Assimes, T., Levine, M. E., Lu, A. T., Tsao, P. S., Hou, L., Manson, J. E., Carty, C. L., LaCroix, A. Z., Reiner, A. P., Spector, T. D., Feinberg, A. P., Levy, D., Baccarelli, A., van Meurs, J., Bell, J. T., Peters, A., Deary, I. J., Pankow, J. S., Ferrucci, L., & Horvath, S.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Erasmus MC (NL)
  • Helmholtz Munich (DE)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
  • Baylor College of Medicine (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Boston University (US)
  • Geriatric Unit, Usl Centro Toscana Florence, Italy
  • University of Exeter (GB)
  • Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
  • Innsbruck Medical University (AT)
  • Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum e.V. (DE)
  • Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
  • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
  • HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • Children's National (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, ; USA
  • Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
Corresponding author
Horvath, Steve
Venue
Aging
Published
2016-09-28
Volume
8
Issue
9
Pages
1844-1865
ISSN
1945-4589 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2421283105
Cited by
1,126
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 82 · 2025: 107 · 2024: 132 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 141 · 2021: 153 · 2020: 117 · 2019: 114 · 2018: 97 · 2017: 74 · 2016: 4
FWCI
8.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
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cc-by
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Funders
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHSN268201100002C, HHSN2682011 00003C, 5RC2HL102419, HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C, HHSN 268201100001C, HHSN268201500001I, HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100004C, HHSN-271-2011-00004C)
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Ohio State University
  • Wake Forest University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Wellcome Trust (FP7/2007–2013)
  • Scottish Government
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (FP7/2007–2013, NF-SI-0507-10228, NF-SI-0514-10027)
  • Age UK (MR/K026992/1)
  • King's College London
  • European Commission (2007–2013, FP7 2007-2013, FP7/2007, 305280)
  • University of Edinburgh (MR/K026992/1)
  • German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
  • University of Queensland
  • ZonMw
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
  • Erasmus Medisch Centrum (014-93-015)
  • Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FP7 2007-2013, 911-03-012, 175.010.2005.011, 917103521)
  • Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (MR/K026992/1)
  • National Institutes of Health (HHSN268201100012C, FP7/2007-2013, HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C,HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C, HHSN268201100008C, HHSN268201100006C, HHSN268201100004C, HHSN26820- 1100005C, HHSN268201100007C, HHSN268201100046C, HHSN271201100004C, HHSN268201100011C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN268201100002C, n01hc25195-41-0-1, HHSN268201100009C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201500001I, N01-HC 25195)
  • Directorate for Biological Sciences
  • University at Buffalo
  • Medical Research Council (MR/K026992/1, MR/M013111/1)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (MR/K026992/1)
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N000404/1)
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München
  • Münchner Zentrum für Gesundheitswissenschaften
  • National Institute on Aging (HHSN-271-2011-00004C,, R01AG029451, N01-HC-25195, R01AG042187, U34AG051425, RF1AG036042, R01AG042511)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HHSN268201 100012C, HHSN268201100007I, HHSN268201100007C, HHSN2682 01100008C, HH-SN-268201100006C, HHSN268201100011C, HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C,HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C, HHSN2682011-00005I, HHSN2682011-00001I, HHSN2682011-00002I, N01‐HC25195, HHSN268201100004C, HHSN268201500001I, HHSN2682011-­00009I, HHSN268201100005C, HHSN268201500001C, HHSN268201100005G, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN271201100004C, HHSN2682011‐00004I, HHSN26820-1100002C, HHSN268201100011I, N01-HC-025195, 60442456, HHSN268201100046C, HHSN26820 1100009C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN2682011-00008I, HHSN268201100003C, RC2HL102419)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007309)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R00ES023450, R01ES025225, R01ES021733, R01ES015172, P30ES023515)
  • Center for Information Technology
  • NHLBI Division of Intramural Research
Topics
  • 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
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Keywords
DNA methylation, biological age, epigenetic clocks, time to death, mortality prediction, mortality risk
MeSH terms
Aging, Female, Humans, Male, Mortality, Risk Factors, Logistic Models, Survival Analysis, T-Lymphocyte Subsets, DNA Methylation, Epigenesis, Genetic, Racial Groups

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