Advancing understanding of maternal age: correlating epigenetic clocks in blood and myometrium.
Elise N EricksonAnna K KnightAlicia K SmithLeslie MyattPublished in: Epigenetics communications (2022)
Given the limited sample, this study provides insight into the potential use of epigenetic age derived from blood as a proxy for myometrial epigenetic age, which may be a useful biomarker in estimating myometrial biological age in relationship to myometrial dysfunction. GrimAge outperformed the other tested clocks in terms of concordance of epigenetic age and age acceleration between tissues; however, the Horvath and Hannum clocks may be useful depending on the outcome of interest in pregnancy.