ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
The PedBE clock accurately estimates DNA methylation age in pediatric buccal cells.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06669624 (Leveraging Scientific Advances to Strengthen the Implementation, Evaluation, and Impacts of Intervention Programs for Children Experiencing Early Life Adversity), which is not on this map. Cited by 173 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Leveraging Scientific Advances to Strengthen the Implementation, Evaluation, and Impacts of Intervention Programs for Children Experiencing Early Life Adversity
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173 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 278 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Epigenetic impact of a 1-week intensive multimodal group program for adolescents with multiple adverse childhood experiences.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
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- The potential of methylation signal detection in eDNA toward functional ecological monitoring.Communications biology · 2026Review
- Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 140 studies.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Epigenetic Age Acceleration, Neurocognition and Oral Health in Nigerian Adolescents With and Without HIV.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2026Article
- Epigenetic age acceleration in adolescence: cross-sectional associations with dietary intake and prospective associations with cardiometabolic risk indicators in a Mexico City cohort.Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD · 2026Article
- The Evolving Landscape of Clinical Aging Clocks: From Epigenetic to Multi-Omics Integration.Aging cell · 2026Review
- Probing buccal-customized epigenetic clocks to investigate socioeconomic and health disparities.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Developing a multi-modal neuroimaging-based BrainAge model across childhood.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- From the lab to lifestyle: epigenetic clocks in personalized aging and health.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Unraveling the complexity of skin's biological aging utilizing epigenetic clocks.Clinical epigenetics · 2026Article
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- Cross-Generational Integration of Exercise and Nutritional Encoding in Offspring Adipose Genomics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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Abstract
The development of biological markers of aging has primarily focused on adult samples. Epigenetic clocks are a promising tool for measuring biological age that show impressive accuracy across most tissues and age ranges. In adults, deviations from the DNA methylation (DNAm) age prediction are correlated with several age-related phenotypes, such as mortality and frailty. In children, however, fewer such associations have been made, possibly because DNAm changes are more dynamic in pediatric populations as compared to adults. To address this gap, we aimed to develop a highly accurate, noninvasive, biological measure of age specific to pediatric samples using buccal epithelial cell DNAm. We gathered 1,721 genome-wide DNAm profiles from 11 different cohorts of typically developing individuals aged 0 to 20 y old. Elastic net penalized regression was used to select 94 CpG sites from a training dataset (
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