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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2025

Cross-omics risk scores of inflammation markers are associated with all-cause mortality: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Anat Yaskolka Meir, Huan Yun, Jie Hu, Jun Li, Jiaxuan Liu, Alaina Bever, Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Mingyang Song, A Heather Eliassen, Lori Chibnik and 4 more

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Anat Yaskolka MeirDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: ayaskolkameir@hsph.harvard.edu.
Huan YunDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jie HuDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Jun LiDivision of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jiaxuan LiuDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Alaina BeverDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Andrew RatanatharathornDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Mingyang SongDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
A Heather EliassenDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Lori ChibnikDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Karestan KoenenDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Guillaume PareDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Meir J StampferDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Liming LiangDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: lliang@hsph.harvard.edu.

Funding

Life Course Cancer Epidemiology Cohort in WomenU01CA176726 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI ELIASSEN, A. HEATHER, WILLETT, WALTER C. · 2018 to 2025
$22.4M
Long Term Multidisciplinary Study of Cancer in Women: The Nurses Health StudyUM1CA186107 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ELIASSEN, A. HEATHER, STAMPFER, MEIR · 2014 to 2023
$22.3M
Cancer Epidemiology Cohort in Male Health ProfessionalsU01CA167552 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI Lorelei Mucci, Walter C. Willett · 2017 to 2026
$17.0M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM144273 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI David Shumway Jones, Jacqueline A. Lees · 2022 to 2026
$14.7M
Premonopausal Hormone Levels and Risk of Breast CancerR01CA067262 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI HANKINSON, SUSAN E · 2002 to 2011
$11.9M
BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS IN THE NURSES'HEALTH STUDY COHORTR01CA049449 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI HANKINSON, SUSAN E · 1989 to 2008
$11.3M
Harnessing DNA methylation in peripheral blood for improved colorectal cancer preventionR01CA285851 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI Marios Giannakis, Mingyang Song · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA049449NCI NIH HHS R01 CA067262NCI NIH HHS R01 CA285851NCI NIH HHS U01 CA167552NCI NIH HHS U01 CA176726NCI NIH HHS UM1 CA186107NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144273
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Abstract

Inflammation is a critical component of chronic diseases, aging progression, and lifespan. Omics signatures may characterize inflammation status beyond blood biomarkers. We leveraged genetics (polygenic risk score [PRS]), metabolomics (metabolomic risk score [MRS]), and epigenetics (epigenetic risk score [ERS]) to build multi-omics-multi-marker risk scores for inflammation status represented by the level of circulating C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α). We found that multi-omics risk scores generally outperformed single-omics risk scores in predicting all-cause mortality in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Compared with circulating inflammation biomarkers, some multi-omics risk scores had a higher hazard ratio (HR) for all-cause mortality when including both score and circulating IL-6 in the same model (1-SD IL-6 MRS-ERS: HR = 2.20 [1.55-3.13] vs. 1-SD circulating IL-6 HR = 0.94 [0.67,1.32]. 1-SD IL-6 PRS-MRS: HR = 1.47 [1.35,1.59] vs. 1-SD circulating IL-6 HR = 1.33 [1.18, 1.51]. 1-SD PRS-MRS-ERS: HR = 1.95 [1.40, 2.70] vs. 1-SD circulating IL-6: HR = 0.99 [0.71, 1.39]). In the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), NHS II, and Health Professional Follow-up Study with available omics, 1 SD of IL-6 PRS and 1-SD IL-6 PRS-MRS had HR = 1.12 [1.00,1.26] and HR = 1.13 [1.01,1.26] among individuals >65 years old without mutual adjustment of the score and circulating IL-6. Our study demonstrates that some multi-omics scores for inflammation markers may characterize important inflammation burden for an individual beyond those represented by blood biomarkers and improve our prediction capability for the aging process and lifespan.

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AgingBiomarkersInflammationAgedAged, 80 and overCanadaC-Reactive ProteinEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleHumansInterleukin-6Longitudinal StudiesMaleMetabolomicsMiddle AgedMortalityBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinInterleukin-6Tumor Necrosis Factor-alphaCLSADNA methylationgeneticsmetabolomics

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