| Title: | Longitudinal fundus imaging and its genome-wide association analysis provide evidence for a human retinal aging clock |
| Journal: | eLife |
| Published: | 17 Apr 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36975205/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.82364 |
Publication 11349
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Abstract
Biological age, distinct from an individual's chronological age, has been studied extensively through predictive aging clocks. However, these clocks have limited accuracy in short time-scales. Here we trained deep learning models on fundus images from the EyePACS dataset to predict individuals' chronological age. Our retinal aging clocking, 'eyeAge', predicted chronological age more accurately than other aging clocks (mean absolute error of 2.86 and 3.30 years on quality-filtered data from EyePACS and UK Biobank, respectively). Additionally, eyeAge was independent of blood marker-based measures of biological age, maintaining an all-cause mortality hazard ratio of 1.026 even when adjusted for phenotypic age. The individual-specific nature of eyeAge was reinforced via multiple GWAS hits in the UK Biobank cohort. The top GWAS locus was further validated via knockdown of the fly homolog, Alk, which slowed age-related decline in vision in flies. This study demonstrates the potential utility of a retinal aging clock for studying aging and age-related diseases and quantitatively measuring aging on very short time-scales, opening avenues for quick and actionable evaluation of gero-protective therapeutics.</p>
14 Authors
- Sara Ahadi
- Kenneth A Wilson
- Boris Babenko
- Cory Y McLean
- Drew Bryant
- Orion Pritchard
- Ajay Kumar
- Enrique M Carrera
- Ricardo Lamy
- Jay M Stewart
- Avinash Varadarajan
- Marc Berndl
- Pankaj Kapahi
- Ali Bashir
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 17643 | Automated Detection of Ocular & Systemic Disease Via Retinal Fundus Imaging |
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