Phenome-Wide Multi-Omics Integration Uncovers Distinct Archetypes of Human Aging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12384v3
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:18:20 GMT
• Title: Phenome-Wide Multi-Omics Integration Uncovers Distinct Archetypes of Human Aging
• Authors: Huifa Li, Feilong Tang, Haochen Xue, Yulong Li, Xinlin Zhuang, Bin Zhang, Eran Segal, Imran Razzak,
• Abstract summary: We developed and rigorously validated a multi-omics aging clock that robustly predicts diverse health outcomes and future disease risk.<n>Unotype clustering of the integrated molecular profiles from multi-omics uncovered distinct biological subtypes of aging.<n>These findings demonstrate the power of multi-omics integration to decode the molecular landscape of aging and lay the groundwork for personalized healthspan monitoring and precision strategies to prevent age-related diseases.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Aging is a highly complex and heterogeneous process that progresses at different rates across individuals, making biological age (BA) a more accurate indicator of physiological decline than chronological age. While previous studies have built aging clocks using single-omics data, they often fail to capture the full molecular complexity of human aging. In this work, we leveraged the Human Phenotype Project, a large-scale cohort of 10,000 adults aged 40-70 years, with extensive longitudinal profiling that includes clinical, behavioral, environmental, and multi-omics datasets spanning transcriptomics, lipidomics, metabolomics, and the microbiome. By employing advanced machine learning frameworks capable of modeling nonlinear biological dynamics, we developed and rigorously validated a multi-omics aging clock that robustly predicts diverse health outcomes and future disease risk. Unsupervised clustering of the integrated molecular profiles from multi-omics uncovered distinct biological subtypes of aging, revealing striking heterogeneity in aging trajectories and pinpointing pathway-specific alterations associated with different aging patterns. These findings demonstrate the power of multi-omics integration to decode the molecular landscape of aging and lay the groundwork for personalized healthspan monitoring and precision strategies to prevent age-related diseases.

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