Nature aging

Protein-based aging clocks in population studies: progress, uses, and future possibilities

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Abstract

Essence

Proteomic aging clocks may help estimate biological aging and identify aging biomarkers, but clinical translation remains unsettled.

Evidence

This review summarizes human blood proteomic clock platforms, modeling strategies, and possible discovery, prediction, and response-biomarker applications.

Caveat

Proteomic clocks vary widely by assay platform, study population, and model, limiting generalizability, biological interpretability, and clinical utility.

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