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Population specific biomarkers of human aging: a big data study using South Korean, Canadian and Eastern European patient populations.

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Accurate and physiologically meaningful biomarkers for human aging are key to assessing anti-aging therapies. Given ethnic differences in health, diet, lifestyle, behaviour, environmental exposures and even average rate of biological aging, it stands to reason that aging clocks trained on datasets obtained from specific ethnic populations are more likely to account for these potential confounding factors, resulting in an enhanced capacity to predict chronological age and quantify biological age. Here we present a deep learning-based hematological aging clock modeled using the large combined dataset of Canadian, South Korean and Eastern European population blood samples that show increased predictive accuracy in individual populations compared to population-specific hematologic aging clocks. The performance of models was also evaluated on publicly-available samples of the American population from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). In addition, we explored the association between age predicted by both population-specific and combined hematological clocks and all-cause mortality. Overall, this study suggests a) the population-specificity of aging patterns and b) hematologic clocks predicts all-cause mortality. Proposed models added to the freely available Aging.AI system allowing improved ability to assess human aging.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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1079-5006
URL
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https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/gerona/gly005
DOI
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10.1093/gerona/gly005
Short Title
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J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
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