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Common diseases alter the physiological age-related blood microRNA profile.

ABSTRACT: Aging is a key risk factor for chronic diseases of the elderly. MicroRNAs regulate post-transcriptional gene silencing through base-pair binding on their target mRNAs. We identified nonlinear changes in age-related microRNAs by analyzing whole blood from 1334 healthy individuals. We observed a larger influence of the age as compared to the sex and provide evidence for a shift to the 5' mature form of miRNAs in healthy aging. The addition of 3059 diseased patients uncovered pan-disease and disease-specific alterations in aging profiles. Disease biomarker sets for all diseases were different between young and old patients. Computational deconvolution of whole-blood miRNAs into blood cell types suggests that cell intrinsic gene expression changes may impart greater significance than cell abundance changes to the whole blood miRNA profile. Altogether, these data provide a foundation for understanding the relationship between healthy aging and disease, and for the development of age-specific disease biomarkers.

SUBMITTER: Fehlmann T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686493 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Common diseases alter the physiological age-related blood microRNA profile.

Fehlmann Tobias T Lehallier Benoit B Schaum Nicholas N Hahn Oliver O Kahraman Mustafa M Li Yongping Y Grammes Nadja N Geffers Lars L Backes Christina C Balling Rudi R Kern Fabian F Krüger Rejko R Lammert Frank F Ludwig Nicole N Meder Benjamin B Fromm Bastian B Maetzler Walter W Berg Daniela D Brockmann Kathrin K Deuschle Christian C von Thaler Anna-Katharina AK Eschweiler Gerhard W GW Milman Sofiya S Barziliai Nir N Reichert Matthias M Wyss-Coray Tony T Meese Eckart E Keller Andreas A

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Aging is a key risk factor for chronic diseases of the elderly. MicroRNAs regulate post-transcriptional gene silencing through base-pair binding on their target mRNAs. We identified nonlinear changes in age-related microRNAs by analyzing whole blood from 1334 healthy individuals. We observed a larger influence of the age as compared to the sex and provide evidence for a shift to the 5' mature form of miRNAs in healthy aging. The addition of 3059 diseased patients uncovered pan-disease and diseas ...[more]

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