不同白细胞计数和表观遗传时钟:双向的门德尔随机化研究
Manli Sun1, Huan Yang1, Yang Hu2
1Drug Clinical Trail Center, The Second Hospital of Heilongjiang Province, 209 Jiangdu Street, Harbin, China.
Clinical epigenetics
|August 27, 2024
概括
较低的淋巴细胞和较高的中性粒细胞数量加速表观遗传衰老. 白细胞计数因果影响表观遗传时钟,影响PhenoAge,GrimAge和HannumAge,但不是相反.
科学领域:
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 衰老研究研究 衰老研究
背景情况:
- 人的衰老和白细胞 (WBC) 计数是受遗传学影响的复杂特征.
- 表观遗传时钟预测时间年龄,但它们与白血球计数的双向关系未得到充分探索.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究表观遗传钟和白细胞计数之间的双向因果关系.
- 为了确定特定的WBC类型是否影响表观遗传衰老加速.
主要方法:
- 孟德尔随机化 (MR) 分析使用来自四个表观遗传钟和血细胞联盟的总结统计数据.
- 采用随机效应逆变量加权方法和多变量MR.
主要成果:
- 淋巴细胞数量的减少加速了PhenoAge,GrimAge和HannumAge.
- 增加的中性粒细胞数量增加了PhenoAge,GrimAge和HannumAge.
- 没有发现表观遗传钟对整体白细胞计数的显著因果影响.
结论:
- 淋巴细胞和中性粒细胞的数量对加速表观遗传衰老 (PhenoAge,GrimAge,HannumAge) 有独立的因果关系.
- 白细胞在影响表观遗传时钟方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 免疫参数对于解释表观遗传年龄很重要.
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