David Sinclair· PhD
So what we've learned since is that there are various tissues have different clocks. And it helps to have a specific clock for that particular tissue.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
So what we've learned since is that there are various tissues have different clocks. And it helps to have a specific clock for that particular tissue.
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And by comparing the age of different organs in someone’s body, you might be able to find out which ones are aging faster or slower.
So, I can compare aging in, again, skin to aging in brain using the exact same measure. And I don't think there's any other type of biomarker that you could do that with.
So, epigenetic clocks look across either hundreds or hundreds of thousands of these sites and just say, "Does the pattern of whether you have methylation or not resemble someone of a given age typically?"