Quantification of biological aging in young adults

  • Daniel W. Belsky
    Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710;
  • Avshalom Caspi
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Renate Houts
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Harvey J. Cohen
    Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710;
  • David L. Corcoran
    Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Andrea Danese
    Social, Genetic, & Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom;
  • HonaLee Harrington
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Salomon Israel
    Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel;
  • Morgan E. Levine
    Department of Human Genetics, Gonda Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
  • Jonathan D. Schaefer
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Karen Sugden
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Ben Williams
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Anatoli I. Yashin
    Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
  • Richie Poulton
    Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
  • Terrie E. Moffitt
    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>The global population is aging, driving up age-related disease morbidity. Antiaging interventions are needed to reduce the burden of disease and protect population productivity. Young people are the most attractive targets for therapies to extend healthspan (because it is still possible to prevent disease in the young). However, there is skepticism about whether aging processes can be detected in young adults who do not yet have chronic diseases. Our findings indicate that aging processes can be quantified in people still young enough for prevention of age-related disease, opening a new door for antiaging therapies. The science of healthspan extension may be focused on the wrong end of the lifespan; rather than only studying old humans, geroscience should also study the young.</jats:p>

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