OMICmAge: an integrative multi-omics approach to quantify biological age with electronic medical records

Qingwen Chen, Varun B. Dwareka, Natàlia Carreras-Gallo, Kevin Mendez, Yulu Chen, Sofina Begum, Priyadarshini Kachroo, Nicole Prince, Hannah Went, Travis Mendez, Aaron Lin, Logan Turner, Mahdi Moqri, Su H. Chu, Rachel S. Kelly, Scott T. Weiss, Nicholas J.W. Rattray, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Elizabeth Karlson, Craig WheelockEwy A. Mathé, Amber Dahlin, Michael J. McGeachie, Ryan Smith, Jessica A. Lasky-Su

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Abstract

Biological aging is a multifactorial process involving complex interactions of cellular and biochemical processes that is reflected in omic profiles. Using common clinical laboratory measures in ~30,000 individuals from the MGB-Biobank, we developed a robust, predictive biological aging phenotype, EMRAge, that balances clinical biomarkers with overall mortality risk and can be broadly recapitulated across EMRs. We then applied elastic-net regression to model EMRAge with DNA-methylation (DNAm) and multiple omics, generating DNAmEMRAge and OMICmAge, respectively. Both biomarkers demonstrated strong associations with chronic diseases and mortality that outperform current biomarkers across our discovery (MGB-ABC, n=3,451) and validation TruDiagnostic, n=12,666) cohorts. Through the use of epigenetic biomarker proxies, OMICmAge has the unique advantage of expanding the predictive search space to include epigenomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and clinical data while distilling this in a measure with DNAm alone, providing opportunities to identify clinically-relevant interconnections central to the aging process.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCold Spring Harbor, NY
Pages1-40
Number of pages40
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2023

Keywords

  • epigenetics
  • proteomics
  • metabolomics
  • biological aging
  • multi-omics
  • aging
  • clock
  • biobank

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