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library_name: pyaging
tags:
  - pyaging
  - aging-clock
  - biology
  - dna-methylation

dnamtl

Elastic-net blood DNA-methylation estimator of measured leukocyte telomere length, using 140 CpGs shared by the Illumina 450K and EPIC arrays and returning kilobases.

Model weights retain the original authors' terms; the pyaging software license does not relicense them.

Predicts leukocyte telomere length
Species Homo sapiens
Tissue whole blood
Data type DNA methylation
Model type elastic net regression
Year 2019

Use with pyaging

import pyaging as pya

pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["dnamtl"])

Browse every clock in the pyaging Clock Catalogue.

Citation

Lu, A. T., et al. "DNA methylation-based estimator of telomere length." Aging 11.16 (2019): 5895-5923.

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102173