[Statlist] Talk "Measuring and understanding Biological Age" by Peter Joshi

[Zoltan Kutalik]

Dear Mailing list

Below you can find details on a talk that will take place in Lausanne on
Thursday 11 November at noon.

*Speaker:* Peter Joshi (University of Edinburgh)
*Title:* Measuring and understanding Biological Age
*Time:* 12h00-13h00 on 11 November
*Place:* Genopode - Auditorium A
*Virtually:* https://unil.zoom.us/j/6140300162 (password: HPC_DBC)
*Abstract: *

Biological age is a term increasingly used to refer to the idea that we age
at different rates. Work has shown that measures of biological age can be
developed, which are prognostic of future mortality. However, the field is
still in its infancy, with research often showing statistically significant
results, but less emphasis on their implications, or their causes.

Peter will discuss penalised regression approaches to estimation of
chronological age and (hidden) biological age in high dimensional -omics
assays such as proteomics, using the highly  (11 -omics assays) annotated
 ORCADES population cohort, and share results of their prognostic value, as
well as considering the wider context and outlook for the field.

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