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ArticleAging cell2024

Contextualizing aging clocks and properly describing biological age.

Adiv A Johnson, Maxim N Shokhirev

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Article in Aging cell, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Proteomic Markers of Aging and Longevity: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  11. Sex differences in DNA methylation in bats.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Adiv A JohnsonTally Health, New York City, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4740-2635
Maxim N ShokhirevTally Health, New York City, New York, USA.

Funding

Tally Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Usage of the phrase "biological age" has picked up considerably since the advent of aging clocks and it has become commonplace to describe an aging clock's output as biological age. In contrast to this labeling, biological age is also often depicted as a more abstract concept that helps explain how individuals are aging internally, externally, and functionally. Given that the bulk of molecular aging is tissue-specific and aging itself is a remarkably complex, multifarious process, it is unsurprising that most surveyed scientists agree that aging cannot be quantified via a single metric. We share this sentiment and argue that, just like it would not be reasonable to assume that an individual with an ideal grip strength, VO

Indexed as

AgingBiological ClocksAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticHumansaging biomarkeraging clockbiohorologybiological agechronological agemortality

Identifiers

PMID39392224
PMCPMC11634725

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