Human Skin, Oral, and Gut Microbiomes Predict Chronological Age

In this study, we tested the ability of the oral, gut, and skin (hand and forehead) microbiomes to predict age in adults using random forest regression on data combined from multiple publicly available studies, evaluating the models in each cohort individually. Intriguingly, the skin microbiome provides the best prediction of age. For full text please click here

Zhenjiang Zech Xu
Zhenjiang Zech Xu
Professor

My research interests include microbiome, (meta)genomics and machine learning.