Epigenetic clocks, aging, and cancer

Science. 2022 Dec 23;378(6626):1276-1277. doi: 10.1126/science.abn4009. Epub 2022 Dec 22.

Sarah E Johnstone^{1

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3}, Vadim N Gladyshev^{3

4}, Martin J Aryee^{2

3

5}, Bradley E Bernstein^{2

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7}

¹ Department of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract

Global methylation changes in aging cells affect cancer risk and tissue homeostasis.