www.aging-us.com AGING 2021, Vol. 13, No.15 Research Paper Epigenetic age prediction in semen – marker selection and model development Aleksandra Pisarek1, Ewelina Pośpiech1, Antonia Heidegger2, Catarina Xavier2, Anna Papież3, Danuta Piniewska-Róg4, Vivian Kalamara5, Ramya Potabattula6, Michał Bochenek1, Marta Sikora-Polaczek7, Aneta Macur8, Anna Woźniak9, Jarosław Janeczko8, Christopher Phillips10, Thomas Haaf6, Joanna Polaoska3, Walther Parson2,11, Manfred Kayser5, Wojciech Branicki1,9 on behalf of the VISAGE Consortium 1Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland 2Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 3Department of Data Science and Engineering, The Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland 4Department of Legal Medicine, Medical College, Krakow, Poland 5Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 6Institute of Human Genetics, Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany 7The Fertility Partnership Macierzynstwo, Krakow, Poland 8PARENS Fertility Centre, Krakow, Poland 9Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police, Warsaw, Poland 10Department of Legal Medicine, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 11Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA Correspondence to: Wojciech Branicki; email:
[email protected] Keywords: semen, epigenetic age, DNA methylation, amplicon bisulfite sequencing, epigenetic age estimation Received: March 16, 2021 Accepted: July 17, 2021 Published: August 10, 2021 Copyright: © 2021 Pisarek et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT DNA methylation analysis is becoming increasingly useful in biomedical research and forensic practice.