Vitamin D status and epigenetic-based mortality risk score: strong independent and joint prediction of all-cause mortality in a population-based cohort study

Vitamin D status and epigenetic-based mortality risk score: strong independent and joint prediction of all-cause mortality in a population-based cohort study

Abstract Background Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency have been established to be strongly associated with increased overall mortality and deaths from specific aging-related diseases. Recently, an epigenetic “mortality risk score” (MS) based on whole blood DNA methylation at the 10 most promine...

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Main Authors: Xu Gao, Yan Zhang, Ben Schöttker, Hermann Brenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Clinical Epigenetics
Subjects:
DNA methylation
Epigenetic mortality risk score
Vitamin D
All-cause mortality
Epigenetic epidemiology
Precision medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13148-018-0515-y

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