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DNAmFitAge: biological age indicator incorporating physical fitness.
Article in Aging, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.
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- Deep Learning-Based Estimated Pulmonary Biological Age From Chest Computed Tomography Images in Healthy Adults: Model Development and Validation Study.JMIR aging · 2026Article
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- Epigenome-wide exploratory study of blood DNA methylation and markers of physical performance indicates subtle differences across levels of cardiovascular fitness.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Physical fitness is a well-known correlate of health and the aging process and DNA methylation (DNAm) data can capture aging via epigenetic clocks. However, current epigenetic clocks did not yet use measures of mobility, strength, lung, or endurance fitness in their construction. We develop blood-based DNAm biomarkers for fitness parameters gait speed (walking speed), maximum handgrip strength, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) which have modest correlation with fitness parameters in five large-scale validation datasets (average r between 0.16-0.48). We then use these DNAm fitness parameter biomarkers with DNAmGrimAge, a DNAm mortality risk estimate, to construct DNAmFitAge, a new biological age indicator that incorporates physical fitness. DNAmFitAge is associated with low-intermediate physical activity levels across validation datasets (
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