2024
DNA methylation‐based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all‐cause mortality
Liang X, Aouizerat B, So‐Armah K, Cohen M, Marconi V, Xu K, Justice A. DNA methylation‐based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all‐cause mortality. Aging Cell 2024, 23: e14174. PMID: 38629454, PMCID: PMC11258465, DOI: 10.1111/acel.14174.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCancer prevalenceAll-cause mortalityVeterans Aging Cohort Study Biomarker CohortMortality riskPhysiological frailtyVACS IndexIncreased risk of all-cause mortalityRisk of all-cause mortalityCancer registry dataHigher cancer prevalenceHIV infectionElectronic medical recordsSelf-reported raceCoronary heart diseaseAssociated with HIV infectionIndicator of cellular agingPhysical frailtyRegistry dataSmoking statusWomen's Interagency HIV Study cohortAlcohol consumptionShorter TLTelomere lengthMedical recordsPeripheral blood mononuclear cells
2019
Epigenetic Associations With Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Among Men With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Chen J, Huang Y, Hui Q, Mathur R, Gwinn M, So-Armah K, Freiberg MS, Justice AC, Xu K, Marconi VC, Sun YV. Epigenetic Associations With Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Among Men With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2019, 70: 667-673. PMID: 30893429, PMCID: PMC7319269, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz240.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic kidney diseaseHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectionImmunodeficiency virus infectionGlomerular filtration rateKidney functionFiltration rateVirus infectionVeterans Aging Cohort StudyPeripheral blood mononuclear cellsAging Cohort StudyHIV-positive participantsBlood mononuclear cellsMechanisms of HIVCKD riskCohort studyKidney diseaseMononuclear cellsHigh riskHIVPooled populationEGFREpigenetic associationsSignificant CpG sitesGuanine dinucleotide sitesPotential epigenetic mechanisms