Aging Biomarkers: Integrating Omic Profiles with Mechanistic Measures

衰老生物标志物：将组学概况与机械测量相结合

• 批准号: 10435252
• 负责人: JINGZHONG DING
• 金额: $ 3.49万
• 依托单位: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-30 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10435252
• 关键词: Administrative Supplement; Adult; Adverse effects; Age; Aging; Animals; Autophagocytosis; Bioenergetics; Biological; Biological Aging; Biological Markers; Biopsy; Blood; Blood Circulation; Brain; Caloric Restriction; Cells; Chronology; Clinical Trials; Code; Cognitive; Development; Dietary Practices; Digit structure; Disease; Elderly; Environmental Risk Factor; Epigenetic Process; Gait speed; Genes; Genetic; Health; Human; Individual; Insulin Resistance; Intervention; Life Cycle Stages; Longevity; Longitudinal cohort study; Measures; Metabolic; Methylation; Mitochondria; Morbidity - disease rate; Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis; Mus; Myocardium; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell; Persons; Pharmacology; Phenotype; Physical Function; Physical Performance; Physical activity; Policies; Procedures; Process; Randomized Clinical Trials; Recommendation; Reporting; Rodent Model; Sampling; Site; Skeletal Muscle; Smoking; Therapeutic Intervention; Time; Tissues; Transcript; Walking; age related; aged; arterial stiffness; biomarker panel; cardiometabolism; cognitive function; comorbidity; cost; epigenomics; executive function; experimental study; fly; follow-up; functional decline; genome-wide analysis; healthspan; intervention effect; middle age; monocyte; mortality; nonhuman primate; novel; potential biomarker; predictive marker; recruit; synergism; transcriptomics; young adult

Project Summary The objective of this study is to develop and validate biomarkers that reflect mechanisms of biological aging. At least five pharmacologic compounds approved for human use extend health span and life span in rodent models. Parallel approaches in humans would require studies lasting 40+ years and are infeasible. Rather, the field needs reliable human biomarkers that indicate beneficial (or adverse) effects of an intervention on aging-related pathways over shorter time periods. Epigenomics and resultant transcriptomic changes may unite mechanisms of biological aging implicated in animal studies and unravel novel pathways. In a genome- wide analysis of monocyte samples in 1,200 persons (aged 55-94 years) from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), we identified 1,794 age-associated methylation sites and 2,704 age-associated transcripts, which over-represented several networks, including mitochondrial bioenergetics and autophagy. We further demonstrated associations of these gene networks with aging-related diseases independent of age. In addition to omic profiles, functional phenotyping may provide further advantages as biomarkers of the aging process. For example, our studies in older adults indicate the bioenergetic capacity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells is positively associated with physical function measures even when controlling for age. We predict that these epigenetic, transcriptomic, and functional markers will be associated with the development of aging-related comorbidities and are responsive to caloric restriction. We propose to utilize existing longitudinal assessments of monocyte epigenetic/transcriptomic profiles and age-related health outcomes from 1,800 middle-aged and older adults (55-94 years) in the MESA study. Leveraging an ongoing randomized clinical trial (VEGGIE) of caloric restriction in 200 adults (40-70 years), we also propose to add skeletal muscle biopsy (N=80). The specific aims are: 1) to determine whether aging-related monocyte transcriptomic/epigenomic pathways individually or in combination predict changes in aging-related diseases over an 8-year follow up (N=1,800); and 2) To determine whether caloric restriction shifts aging-related monocyte transcriptomic/epigenomic pathways (N=200) and bioenergetic measures in circulating cells and skeletal muscle (N=80) towards a younger pattern and whether these changes individually or in combination correlate with changes in aging-related metabolic, physical and cognitive health outcomes. The proposed study will generate a panel of biomarkers reflecting a comprehensive battery of aging pathways by integrating transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles with bioenergetics in circulation and skeletal muscle, from an existing longitudinal cohort study and an ongoing clinical trial of caloric restriction, to efficiently and cost-effectively validate potential biomarkers through multiple convergent strategies.

项目摘要 这项研究的目的是开发和验证反映生物衰老机制的生物标志物。 至少有五种用于人使用的药理学化合物扩展健康跨度和啮齿动物的寿命 型号。人类的平行方法需要持续40多年的研究，并且是不可行的。相当， 该领域需要可靠的人类生物标志物，表明干预对干预的有益（或不利）影响 在较短的时间段内与衰老有关的途径。表观基因组学和结果的转录变化可能 涉及动物研究和揭开新途径的生物衰老机制。在基因组中 对1200人（55-94岁）的单核细胞样品进行了广泛的分析 动脉粥样硬化（MESA），我们确定了1,794个与年龄相关的甲基化位点和2,704年龄相关的 成绩单过多代表了几个网络，包括线粒体生物能学和自噬。 我们进一步证明了这些基因网络与与年龄无关的衰老相关疾病的关联。 除了OMIC曲线外，功能表型还可以作为衰老的生物标志物提供进一步的优势 过程。例如，我们在老年人中的研究表明外周血的生物能力 单核细胞即使在控制年龄时，也与身体功能指标呈正相关。我们 预测这些表观遗传学，转录组和功能标记将与 与衰老有关的合并症，对热量限制有反应。我们建议利用现有的纵向 从1,800 梅萨研究中的中年和老年人（55-94岁）。利用正在进行的随机临床试验 （素食）在200名成年人（40 - 70年）中的热量限制，我们还建议增加骨骼肌肉活检 （n = 80）。具体目的是：1）确定是否与衰老相关的单核细胞转录组/表观基因组是否 单独或组合途径预测在8年的随访中与衰老相关疾病的变化 （n = 1,800）; 2）确定热量限制是否会改变与衰老相关的单核细胞 转录组/表观基因组途径（n = 200）和循环细胞中的生物能量测量 肌肉（n = 80）朝着年轻的模式以及它们分别变化还是组合相关 随着与衰老相关的代谢，身体和认知健康结果的变化。拟议的研究将 通过集成来产生一组生物标志物，反映出全面的老化途径 循环和骨骼肌的转录组和表观基因组谱，现有 纵向队列研究和持续的热量限制临床试验，以有效和成本效益 通过多种收敛策略来验证潜在的生物标志物。