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Self-control is associated with health-relevant disparities in buccal DNA-methylation measures of biological aging in older adults

Authors :
Y. E. Willems
A. deSteiguer
P. T. Tanksley
L. Vinnik
D. Fraemke
A. Okbay
D. Richter
G. G. Wagner
R. Hertwig
P. Koellinger
E. M. Tucker-Drob
K. P. Harden
Laurel Raffington
Source :
Clinical Epigenetics, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
BMC, 2024.

Abstract

Abstract Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quantified in children, adolescents, and adults, and (2) whether biological aging measured in buccal DNAm is associated with self-reported health. Following preregistered analyses, we computed two DNAm measures of advanced biological age (principal-component PhenoAge and GrimAge Acceleration) and a DNAm measure of pace of aging (DunedinPACE) in buccal samples from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP-G[ene], n = 1058, age range 0–72, M age = 42.65) and saliva samples from the Texas Twin Project (TTP, n = 1327, age range 8–20, M age = 13.50). We found that lower self-control was associated with advanced biological age in older adults (PhenoAge Acceleration β = − .34, [− .51, − .17], p

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
18687083
Volume :
16
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Clinical Epigenetics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.b487244a0c440585528d47fc2f64ee
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-024-01637-7