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. 2013 Sep 5;4(10):723–725. doi: 10.1007/s13238-013-3913-0

DNA methylome: Unveiling your biological age

Ming Li 1, Wensu Liu 1, Tingting Yuan 1, Ruijun Bai 1, Guang-Hui Liu 1,2,3,, Weizhou Zhang 4,, Jing Qu 1,
PMCID: PMC4875436  PMID: 24104390

Abstract

Hannum and colleagues performed DNA methylation sequencing to examine the relationship between DNA methylome and aging rate. Notably, they succeeded in building a quantitative and reproducible model based on the epigenetic bio-markers to predict aging rate with high accuracy. This progress enlightens us in many aspects particularly in applying this novel set of bio-markers on studying the mechanism of aging rate using adult tissue-specific stem cells, building up a potential quantitative model to explore the mechanism for other epigenetic factors like non-coding RNA, and understanding the principle and mechanism of 3D chromatin structure in epigenetic modulation.

Footnotes

These authors contributed equally to the work.

Contributor Information

Guang-Hui Liu, Email: ghliu@ibp.ac.cn.

Weizhou Zhang, Email: weizhou-zhang@uiowa.edu.

Jing Qu, Email: jqu@moon.ibp.ac.cn.

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