DNA methylation-based estimator of telomere length

Authors: Ake T. Lu, Anne Seeboth, Pei-Chien Tsai, Dianjianyi Sun, Austin Quach, Alex P. Reiner, Charles Kooperberg, Luigi Ferrucci, Lifang Hou, Andrea Baccarelli, Yun Li, Sarah E. Harris, Janie Corley, Adele Taylor, Ian J. Deary, James D. Stewart, Eric A. Whitsel, Themistocles L. Assimes, Wei Chen, Shengxu Li, Massimo Mangino, Jordana T. Bell, James G. Wilson, Abraham Aviv, Riccardo E. Marioni, Kenneth Raj, Steve Horvath - Aging 2019 cited by 454

. DNAmTL is not only an epigenetic biomarker of replicative history of cells, but a useful marker of age-related pathologies that are associated with it.