DNA methylation age is associated with an altered hemostatic profile in a multi-ethnic meta-analysis

Cavin K. Ward-caviness, Jennifer E. Huffman, Karl Evertt, Marine Germain, Jenny Van Dongen, W. David Hill, Min A. Jhun, Jennifer A. Brody, Mohsen Ghanbari, Lei Du, Nicholas S. Roetker, Paul S. De Vries, Melanie Waldenberger, Christian Gieger, Petra Wolf, Holger Prokisch, Wolfgang Koenig, Christopher J. O'donnell, Daniel Levy, Chunyu LiuVinh Truong, Philip S. Wells, David-alexandre Trégouët, Weihong Tang, Alanna C. Morrison, Eric Boerwinkle, Kerri L. Wiggins, Barbara Mcknight, Xiuqing Guo, Bruce M. Psaty, Nona Sotoodenia, Dorret I. Boomsa, Gonneke Willemsen, Lannie Ligthart, Ian J. Deary, Wei Zhao, Erin B. Ware, Sharon L.r. Kardia, Joyce B.j. Van Meurs, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Oscar H. Franco, Per Eriksson, Anders Franco-cereceda, James S. Pankow, Andrew D. Johnson, France Gagnon, Pierre-emmanuel Morange, Eco J.c. De Geus, John M. Starr, Jennifer A. Smith, Abbas Dehghan, Hanna Björck, Nicholas L. Smith, Annette Peters

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Many hemostatic factors are associated with age and age-related diseases, however much remains unknown about the biological mechanisms linking aging and hemostatic factors. DNA methylation is a novel means by which to assess epigenetic aging, which is a measure of age and the aging processes as determined by altered epigenetic states. We used a meta-analysis approach to examine the association between measures of epigenetic aging and hemostatic factors, as well as a clotting time measure. For fibrinogen, we used European and African-ancestry participants who were meta-analyzed separately and combined via a random effects meta-analysis. All other measures only included participants of European-ancestry. We found that 1-year higher extrinsic epigenetic age as compared to chronological age was associated with higher fibrinogen (0.004 g/L per year; 95% CI: 0.001, 0.007; P = 0.01) and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1; 0.13 U/mL per year; 95% CI: 0.07, 0.20; P = 6.6x10-5) concentrations as well as lower activated partial thromboplastin time, a measure of clotting time. We replicated PAI-1 associations using an independent cohort. To further elucidate potential functional mechanisms we associated epigenetic aging with expression levels of the PAI-1 protein encoding gene (SERPINE1) and the three fibrinogen subunit-encoding genes (FGA, FGG, and FGB), in both peripheral blood and aorta intima-media samples. We observed associations between accelerated epigenetic aging and transcription of FGG in both tissues. Collectively, our results indicate that accelerated epigenetic aging is associated with a pro-coagulation hemostatic profile, and that epigenetic aging may regulate hemostasis in part via gene transcription.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1842-1850
JournalBlood
Volume132
Issue number17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Oct 2018

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