THE NIA BIOMARKER NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING
THE NIA BIOMARKER NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING
Welcome Remarks (Crimmins, Faul, Mitchell)
Sample Collection
DNA Methylation
- How does the timing of blood collection affect epigenetic age estimates? Results regarding time of day and month of year blood collection in the Health and Retirement Study (Klopack, Choi, Ailshire, Crimmins)
- Responsiveness of DNAm Aging Biomarkers Across 51 Longevity Interventional Studies in Humans (Higgins-Chen)
- Factor Analysis Approaches for Classifying Biomarkers Associated with Neurodegeneration, Cognition, and Biological Aging in Early Midlife (Rob, Stebbins, Momkus, Harris, Aiello)
Pilot Presentations
- Validating measures of thyroid-related hormones and auto-antibodies in dried blood spots Aging Family of Cohort Studies (Lawton)
- Establishing a multiplex model for assaying matched venous blood plasma and dried blood samples to determine the concentrations of cytokines associated with inflammaging (Cofferen)
- Cellular and Subcellular Biomarkers of Aging as Mechanisms to Understand Biological Expressions of the Social Environment (Duchowny, Noppert)
- Data Decisions and Their Effect on DNA Methylation Measures of Aging (Kelly)
New Measures
- Development and validation of a targeted mass spectrometry assay to quantify fibrinogen-gamma in the High School & Beyond study (Thomas, Twigg, Ryu, Perez, Enright, Grodsky, Muller, Thyagarajan, Warren)
Neurology and Cognition
- Neurology Protein Determinants of Accelerated Biological Age (Vivek)
- Does Device Choice Shape Cognitive Testing in Population Based Studies? Exploring Digital Neuropsychology Across Platforms in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Aiello, Stebbins, Rob, Tsai, Hummer)
Genetics
- Within-Family GWAS does not Ameliorate the Decline in Prediction Accuracy across Populations (Conley, Zhang)
Future Planning/Discussion
Closing Remarks (Crimmins, Faul, Mitchell)