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Therefore, we developed a novel framework called dynamic views of aging with conditional generative adversarial networks (or DyViA-GAN) that can predict the plausible personalized trajectories of a selected aging phenotype conditioned on the available measurements of the phenotype at a few initial time instances and additional covariates. Given the prevalence of osteoporosis in the aging population, we selected the femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) of a healthy individual as the phenotype of interest and baseline individual body mass index (BMI) as a covariate. We trained DyViA-GAN on a publicly available longitudinal dataset of a large cohort of mostly white women in the United States of age 65 years or above. It generated, for each individual, continuous phenotype trajectories, along with a corresponding region of acceptable predictions, for an age range of 66\u201389\u00a0years, for eight different combinations, both with and without involving the covariate. 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