Cell Reports Medicine

Translating cellular aging clocks into disease risk prediction

Figure 1. From a single blood draw to cellular aging clocks: mechanism and disease predictions Plasma proteins are computationally mapped to their cell of origin using the Human Protein Atlas, spanning more…
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Figure 1. From a single blood draw to cellular aging clocks: mechanism and disease predictions Plasma proteins are computationally mapped to their cell of origin using…From a single blood draw to cellular aging clocks: mechanism and disease predictions Plasma proteins are computationally mapped to their cell of origin using the Human Protein Atlas, spanning more than 40 cell types, including astrocytes, inhibitory neurons, oligodendrocyte…Heikal et al.
Cohort study of 60,000 peopleBiomarkers

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Abstract

Ding et al. mapped over 7,000 plasma proteins to more than 40 cell types and developed machine learning aging clocks across 60,000 individuals, demonstrating that cell-type-specific biological aging is heterogeneous, measurable from blood alone, and powerfully predictive of neurodegenerative disease, cancer, and mortality up to 15 years before clinical onset.¹.