MARK-AGE biomarkers of ageing

A Burkle, M Moreno-Villanueva, J Bernhard, M Blasco, G Zondag, Jan Hoeijmakers, O Toussaint, B Grubeck-Loebenstein, E Mocchegiani, S Collino, ES Gonos, E Sikora, D Gradinaru, M Dolle, M Salmon, P Kristensen, HR Griffiths, C Libert, T Grune, N BreusingA Simm, C Franceschi, M Capri, D Talbot, P Caiafa, B Friguet, PE (Eline) Slagboom, A Hervonen, M Hurme, R Aspinall

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Abstract

Many candidate biomarkers of human ageing have been proposed in the scientific literature but in all cases their variability in cross-sectional studies is considerable, and therefore no single measurement has proven to serve a useful marker to determine, on its own, biological age. A plausible reason for this is the intrinsic multi-causal and multi-system nature of the ageing process. The recently completed MARK-AGE study was a large-scale integrated project supported by the European Commission. The major aim of this project was to conduct a population study comprising about 3200 subjects in order to identify a set of biomarkers of ageing which, as a combination of parameters with appropriate weighting, would measure biological age better than any marker in isolation. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)2-12
Number of pages11
JournalMechanisms of Ageing and Development
Volume151
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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