Age prediction of children and adolescents aged 6-17 years: an epigenome-wide analysis of DNA methylation

Aging
Chunxiao LiLiming Li

Abstract

The DNA methylation age, a good reflection of human aging process, has been used to predict chronological age of adults and newborns. However, the prediction model for children and adolescents was absent. In this study, we aimed to generate a prediction model of chronological age for children and adolescents aged 6-17 years by using age-specific DNA methylation patterns from 180 Chinese twin individuals. We identified 6,350 age-related CpGs from the epigenome-wide association analysis (N=179). 116 known age-related sites in children were confirmed. 83 novel CpGs were selected as predictors from all age-related loci by elastic net regression and they could accurately predict the chronological age of the pediatric population, with a correlation of 0.99 and the error of 0.23 years in the training dataset (N=90). The predictive accuracy in the testing dataset (N=89) was high (correlation=0.93, error=0.62 years). Among the 83 predictors, 49 sites were novel probes not existing on the Illumina 450K BeadChip. The top two predictors of age were on the PRKCB and REG4 genes, which are associated with diabetes and cancer, respectively. Our results suggest that the chronological age can be accurately predicted among children and adolescent...Continue Reading

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
GSE27097

Software Mentioned

Gorilla
DASEN
R packages nlme
R package minfi
glmnet
R
R package wateRmelon

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