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Deep biomarkers of human aging: Application of deep neural networks to biomarker development

Overview of attention for article published in Aging, May 2016
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Title
Deep biomarkers of human aging: Application of deep neural networks to biomarker development
Published in
Aging, May 2016
DOI 10.18632/aging.100968
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Authors

Evgeny Putin, Polina Mamoshina, Alexander Aliper, Mikhail Korzinkin, Alexey Moskalev, Alexey Kolosov, Alexander Ostrovskiy, Charles Cantor, Jan Vijg, Alex Zhavoronkov

Abstract

One of the major impediments in human aging research is the absence of a comprehensive and actionable set of biomarkers that may be targeted and measured to track the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. In this study, we designed a modular ensemble of 21 deep neural networks (DNNs) of varying depth, structure and optimization to predict human chronological age using a basic blood test. To train the DNNs, we used over 60,000 samples from common blood biochemistry and cell count tests from routine health exams performed by a single laboratory and linked to chronological age and sex. The best performing DNN in the ensemble demonstrated 81.5 % epsilon-accuracy r = 0.90 with R(2) = 0.80 and MAE = 6.07 years in predicting chronological age within a 10 year frame, while the entire ensemble achieved 83.5% epsilon-accuracy r = 0.91 with R(2) = 0.82 and MAE = 5.55 years. The ensemble also identified the 5 most important markers for predicting human chronological age: albumin, glucose, alkaline phosphatase, urea and erythrocytes. To allow for public testing and evaluate real-life performance of the predictor, we developed an online system available at http://www.aging.ai. The ensemble approach may facilitate integration of multi-modal data linked to chronological age and sex that may lead to simple, minimally invasive, and affordable methods of tracking integrated biomarkers of aging in humans and performing cross-species feature importance analysis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Russia 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 369 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 73 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 70 19%
Student > Master 46 12%
Student > Bachelor 30 8%
Other 30 8%
Other 61 16%
Unknown 66 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 75 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 13%
Computer Science 46 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 31 8%
Engineering 20 5%
Other 70 19%
Unknown 84 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 795. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 November 2023.
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