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ReviewAging cell2015

Integration of 'omics' data in aging research: from biomarkers to systems biology.

Jonas Zierer, Cristina Menni, Gabi Kastenmüller, Tim D Spector

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Review in Aging cell, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Plasma proteomic Alzheimer's risk score: Biological age clock and pseudotime trajectory.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. Multiomics of Aging and Aging-Related Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  17. The Association of Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Multimorbidity at Age 90 in the Women's Health Initiative.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023
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  19. Aging Hallmarks and the Role of Oxidative Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonas ZiererDepartment of Twins Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.
Cristina MenniDepartment of Twins Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.
Gabi KastenmüllerDepartment of Twins Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.
Tim D SpectorDepartment of Twins Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age is the strongest risk factor for many diseases including neurodegenerative disorders, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Due to increasing life expectancy and low birth rates, the incidence of age-related diseases is increasing in industrialized countries. Therefore, understanding the relationship between diseases and aging and facilitating healthy aging are major goals in medical research. In the last decades, the dimension of biological data has drastically increased with high-throughput technologies now measuring thousands of (epi) genetic, expression and metabolic variables. The most common and so far successful approach to the analysis of these data is the so-called reductionist approach. It consists of separately testing each variable for association with the phenotype of interest such as age or age-related disease. However, a large portion of the observed phenotypic variance remains unexplained and a comprehensive understanding of most complex phenotypes is lacking. Systems biology aims to integrate data from different experiments to gain an understanding of the system as a whole rather than focusing on individual factors. It thus allows deeper insights into the mechanisms of complex traits, which are caused by the joint influence of several, interacting changes in the biological system. In this review, we look at the current progress of applying omics technologies to identify biomarkers of aging. We then survey existing systems biology approaches that allow for an integration of different types of data and highlight the need for further developments in this area to improve epidemiologic investigations.

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Life ExpectancyAgingBiomarkersEpigenomicsGenomicsHumansMetabolomicsProteomicsSystems BiologyTranscriptomeBiomarkersdata integrationgraphical modelshigh-throughput dataomicssystems biology

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PMID26331998
PMCPMC4693464

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