ArticleDevelopmental psychology2025
Pubertal timing as a predictor of epigenetic aging and mortality risk in young adulthood.
Article in Developmental psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Reversible, Sexually Dimorphic Sympathetic Aging: Distal Axon Withdrawal Shaped by Prepubertal Gonadal Influences.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The association of sleep health with epigenetic aging in early adolescence: exploratory insights from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment study.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Pubertal timing as a predictor of epigenetic aging and mortality risk in young adulthood.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Early pubertal timing is associated with adverse health in adulthood. These effects may be mediated by DNA methylation changes associated with accelerated cellular aging and mortality risk, but few studies tested associations between pubertal timing and epigenetic markers in adulthood. Additionally, pubertal timing effects often vary by sex and are understudied in diverse youth. Thus, this longitudinal study examined links between pubertal timing and later epigenetic aging and mortality risk together with sex differences in predominantly Black youth. Participants included 350 individuals (58% female, 42% male; 80% Black, 19% non-Hispanic White). Perceived pubertal timing relative to peers and self-reported phenotypic pubertal timing based on age-adjusted Tanner scores were assessed during early adolescence (
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