Epigenetic age acceleration predicts cancer, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality in a German case cohort

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Perna, Laura ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Mons, Ute ^a   Holleczek, Bernd ^b   Saum, Kai Uwe ^a   Brenner, Hermann ^a,c  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND CANCER REGISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation age; Epigenetic age acceleration; Epigenetic clock; Mortality risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA METHYLATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIGENETIC CLOCK; FEMALE; GERMANIC PEOPLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEOPLASM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEX; SMOKING; AGING; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84975246016     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13148-016-0228-z     Document Type: Article

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