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ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2018

Population Specific Biomarkers of Human Aging: A Big Data Study Using South Korean, Canadian, and Eastern European Patient Populations.

Polina Mamoshina, Kirill Kochetov, Evgeny Putin, Franco Cortese, Alexander Aliper, Won-Suk Lee, Sung-Min Ahn, Lee Uhn, Neil Skjodt, Olga Kovalchuk and 2 more

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Article in The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers.

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92citing papers in PubMed
9.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 191 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 6 countries.

Polina MamoshinaPharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Department, Insilico Medicine, Inc., Emerging Technology Centers, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Kirill KochetovPharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Department, Insilico Medicine, Inc., Emerging Technology Centers, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Evgeny PutinPharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Department, Insilico Medicine, Inc., Emerging Technology Centers, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Franco CorteseDepartment of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Alexander AliperPharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Department, Insilico Medicine, Inc., Emerging Technology Centers, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Won-Suk LeeGachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, South Korea.
Sung-Min AhnGachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, South Korea.
Lee UhnGachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, South Korea.
Neil SkjodtCanada Cancer and Aging Research Laboratories, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Olga KovalchukCanada Cancer and Aging Research Laboratories, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Morten Scheibye-KnudsenCenter for Healthy Aging, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Alex ZhavoronkovPharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Department, Insilico Medicine, Inc., Emerging Technology Centers, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Johns Hopkins University · USGachon University Gil Medical Center · KRUniversity of Lethbridge · CAQueen's University · CAUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate and physiologically meaningful biomarkers for human aging are key to assessing antiaging therapies. Given ethnic differences in health, diet, lifestyle, behavior, 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. The proposed models were added to the freely-available Aging.AI system expanding the range of tools for analysis of human aging.

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