Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: [Email]
Higher mortality experienced by socially disadvantaged groups and/or racial/ethnic minorities is hypothesized to be, at least in part, due to an acceleration of the aging process. Using a new epigenetic aging measure, Levine DNAmAge, this study aimed to investigate whether epigenetic aging accounts for mortality disparities by race/ethnicity and education in a sample of U.S. postmenopausal women.