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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

An epigenetic speedometer to measure Pace of Aging: FraminghamPACE.

William T Marella, Calen P Ryan, David Corcoran, Claire Eckstein Indik, Alex Furuya, Michael S Kobor, Karen Sugden, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E Moffitt, Daniel W Belsky

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

William T MarellaRobert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.ORCID 0009-0000-2467-2862
Calen P RyanRobert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.ORCID 0000-0002-0550-7949
David CorcoranDepartment of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0001-7460-9247
Claire Eckstein IndikRobert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.ORCID 0009-0003-0251-5905
Alex FuruyaRobert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.ORCID 0009-0008-4596-9014
Michael S KoborEdwin S Leong Centre for Healthy Aging, University of British Columbia.ORCID 0000-0003-4140-1743
Karen SugdenDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University.ORCID 0000-0002-4076-5927
Avshalom CaspiDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University.ORCID 0000-0003-0082-4600
Terrie E MoffittDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University.ORCID 0000-0002-8589-6760
Daniel W BelskyRobert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.ORCID 0000-0001-5463-2212

Funding

Is mental disorder a preventable cause of age-related disease? The Dunedin Study.R01AG032282 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CASPI, AVSHALOM, MOFFITT, TERRIE E · 2009 to 2025
$9.5M
ENHANCING THE CALERIE NETWORK TO ADVANCE AGING BIOLOGYR33AG070455 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KIM M. HUFFMAN, WILLIAM E KRAUS · 2021 to 2026
$4.0M
The MyGoals for Healthy Aging Multi-Center Randomized Controlled TrialR01AG073402 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Daniel Walker Belsky · 2022 to 2026
$3.6M
Long-term multi-omics follow-up of the CALERIE Trial to generate new knowledge for geroscienceR01AG061378 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Daniel Walker Belsky · 2019 to 2026
$2.9M
Validating a 3rd-generation methylation measure of accelerated aging: DunedinPoAm4xR01AG073207 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CASPI, AVSHALOM, MOFFITT, TERRIE E · 2022 to 2025
$2.9M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG032282NIA NIH HHS R01 AG061378NIA NIH HHS R01 AG073207NIA NIH HHS R01 AG073402NIA NIH HHS R33 AG070455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geroscience clinical trials need biomarker surrogate endpoints for healthspan. Leading candidates are omics-based composites developed from machine learning analysis of aging phenotypes including calendar age, survival, functional capacity, and Pace of Aging. Existing Pace of Aging biomarkers were developed in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, limiting inference about the strengths and weaknesses of the method as distinct from the Study, a unique single-year birth cohort followed through midlife with near-perfect retention and uniform measurement of multi-organ-system function across two decades of follow-up. We adapted our Pace of Aging method for mixed-age cohorts with variable follow-up of organ-function measures and applied it to develop a novel DNA methylation biomarker of Pace of Aging in data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort, FraminghamPACE. Validation analyses across four independent cohorts and one clinical trial establish advantages for the Pace of Aging method in developing biomarkers that are both predictive of healthspan and responsive to geroprotective intervention.

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PMID42465893
PMCPMC13370530

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