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SUBMITTER: Philibert R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7349894 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Philibert Robert R Beach Steven R H SRH Lei Man-Kit MK Gibbons Frederick X FX Gerrard Meg M Simons Ronald L RL Dogan Meeshanthini V MV
Genes 20200622 6
Epigenetic aging (EA) indices are frequently used as predictors of mortality and other important health outcomes. However, each of the commonly used array-based indices has significant heritable components which could tag ethnicity and potentially confound comparisons across racial and ethnic groups. To determine if this was possible, we examined the relationship of DNA methylation in cord blood from 203 newborns (112 African American (AA) and 91 White) at the 513 probes from the Levine PhenoAge ...[more]