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ArticleGeroScience2025

Genomic determinants of biological age estimated by deep learning applied to retinal images.

Yu Huang, Mohammad Ghouse Syed, Ruiye Chen, Cong Li, Xianwen Shang, Wei Wang, Xueli Zhang, Xiayin Zhang, Shulin Tang, Jing Liu and 11 more

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Article in GeroScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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21 authors.

Yu HuangGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Mohammad Ghouse SyedVAMPIRE Project, Computer Vision and Image Processing Group, School of Science and Engineering (Computing), University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Ruiye ChenCentre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia.
Cong LiGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Xianwen ShangGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Wei WangState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510060, China.
Xueli ZhangGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Xiayin ZhangGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Shulin TangGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Jing LiuGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Shunming LiuGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Sundar SrinivasanDivision of Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Yijun HuGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Muthu Rama Krishnan MookiahVAMPIRE Project, Computer Vision and Image Processing Group, School of Science and Engineering (Computing), University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Huan WangDivision of Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Emanuele TruccoVAMPIRE Project, Computer Vision and Image Processing Group, School of Science and Engineering (Computing), University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Honghua YuGuangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Colin PalmerDivision of Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Zhuoting Zhu *Centre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia. lisa.zhu@unimelb.edu.au.
Alexander S F Doney *Division of Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK. a.doney@dundee.ac.uk.
Mingguang He *Guangdong Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China. mingguang.he@unimelb.edu.au.

Funding

Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital Scientific Research Funds for Leading Medical Talents and Distinguished Young Scholars in Guangdong Province KJ012019457National Natural Science Foundation of China 81870663National Natural Science Foundation of China 82171075NSFC Incubation Project of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, China KY0120220051Outstanding Young Talent Trainee Program of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital KJ012019087Research Foundation of Medical Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, China A2022323Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China 202002020049Talent Introduction Fund of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital Y012018145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the development of deep learning (DL) techniques, there has been a successful application of this approach to determine biological age from latent information contained in retinal images. Retinal age gap (RAG) defined as the difference between chronological age and predicted retinal age has been established previously to predict the age-related disease. In this study, we performed discovery genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) on the RAG using the 31,271 UK Biobank participants and replicated our findings in 8034 GoDARTS participants. The genetic correlation between RAGs predicted from the two cohorts was 0.67 (P = 0.021). After meta-analysis, we found 13 RAG loci which might be related to retinal vessel density and other aging processes. The SNP-wide heritability (h

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AgingDeep LearningRetinaAgedFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMaleMendelian Randomization AnalysisMiddle AgedPolymorphism, Single NucleotideBiological ageGenome-wide association analysisMendelian randomizationRetinal age

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PMID39775603
PMCPMC11979078

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