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Aging is the largest risk factor for many chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, and type 2 diabetes. Therefore, quantifying the biological age is a fundamental step of understanding diseases and designing anti-aging intervention. Dr. Steve Horvath`s epigenetic clock, the gold standard of aging clocks, predicts biological age by measuring DNA methylation at multiple sites [1, 2].