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A FUNCTIONAL EPIGENETIC CLOCK FOR RATS

Evidence from humans suggests that incorporation of phenotypic aging measures in the development of epigenetic clocks leads to more functionally relevant biomarkers. As a result, the aim of this study was to utilize a deeply phenotyped rat cohort—that included data from rotarod, open field, frailty...

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Autores principales: Levine, Morgan E, McDevitt, Ross, Ferrucci, Luigi, deCabo, Rafael
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840133/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.128
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description Evidence from humans suggests that incorporation of phenotypic aging measures in the development of epigenetic clocks leads to more functionally relevant biomarkers. As a result, the aim of this study was to utilize a deeply phenotyped rat cohort—that included data from rotarod, open field, frailty index, and FACS—to generate a novel epigenetic clock. DNA methylation was assessed via reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) for n=142 male Fischer rats from NIA aging colony, ranging in age from 1 to 27 months. Phenotypic traits were combined to generate an multi-system aging measure that was then used to train the epigenetic clock. Using an independent validation sample, age-adjusted epigenetic clock measures were associated with numerous traits, including: open field time resting (p=0.005), open field time climbing (p=0.001), body weight (p=0.02), and rotarod max (p=0.04). In moving forward, it will be important to examine cross-species comparisons, longitudinal change, and functional enrichment.
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spelling pubmed-68401332019-11-13 A FUNCTIONAL EPIGENETIC CLOCK FOR RATS Levine, Morgan E McDevitt, Ross Ferrucci, Luigi deCabo, Rafael Innov Aging Session 625 (Symposium) Evidence from humans suggests that incorporation of phenotypic aging measures in the development of epigenetic clocks leads to more functionally relevant biomarkers. As a result, the aim of this study was to utilize a deeply phenotyped rat cohort—that included data from rotarod, open field, frailty index, and FACS—to generate a novel epigenetic clock. DNA methylation was assessed via reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) for n=142 male Fischer rats from NIA aging colony, ranging in age from 1 to 27 months. Phenotypic traits were combined to generate an multi-system aging measure that was then used to train the epigenetic clock. Using an independent validation sample, age-adjusted epigenetic clock measures were associated with numerous traits, including: open field time resting (p=0.005), open field time climbing (p=0.001), body weight (p=0.02), and rotarod max (p=0.04). In moving forward, it will be important to examine cross-species comparisons, longitudinal change, and functional enrichment. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6840133/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.128 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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