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MARK-AGE biomarkers of ageing

  • Alexander Bürkle*
  • , María Moreno-Villanueva
  • , Jürgen Bernhard
  • , María Blasco
  • , Gerben Zondag
  • , Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
  • , Olivier Toussaint
  • , Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein
  • , Eugenio Mocchegiani
  • , Sebastiano Collino
  • , Efstathios S. Gonos
  • , Ewa Sikora
  • , Daniela Gradinaru
  • , Martijn Dollé
  • , Michel Salmon
  • , Peter Kristensen
  • , Helen R. Griffiths
  • , Claude Libert
  • , Tilman Grune
  • , Nicolle Breusing
  • Andreas Simm, Claudio Franceschi, Miriam Capri, Duncan Talbot, Paola Caiafa, Bertrand Friguet, P. Eline Slagboom, Antti Hervonen, Mikko Hurme, Richard Aspinall
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Universität Konstanz
  • BioTeSys GmbH
  • Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
  • DNage BV
  • Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Université de Namur
  • Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
  • IRCCS-INRCA
  • Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA
  • National Hellenic Research Foundation
  • Polska Akademia Nauk
  • Universitea de Medicină şi Farmacie "Carol Davila" Bucareşti
  • Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research
  • Straticell
  • Aarhus University
  • Universiteit Gent
  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  • Universität Hohenheim
  • Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale)
  • Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Unilever Corporate Research
  • Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
  • Sorbonne Universités
  • Leiden University Medical Centre
  • Tampereen Yliopisto
  • Regenerative Medicine Group

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2-12
Number of pages11
JournalMechanisms of Ageing and Development
Volume151
Early online date24 Mar 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2015

Bibliographical note

© 2015 Z. 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/).

European Commission for financial support through the FP7 large-scale integrating project “European Study to Establish Biomarkers of Human Ageing” (MARK-AGE; grant agreement no.: 200880.

Keywords

  • ageing biomarkers
  • human studies
  • MARK-AGE

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