| 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. | |
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| |---|---| | |
| | **Predicts** | leukocyte telomere length | | |
| | **Species** | Homo sapiens | | |
| | **Tissue** | whole blood | | |
| | **Data type** | DNA methylation | | |
| | **Model type** | elastic net regression | | |
| | **Year** | 2019 | | |
| ## Use with pyaging | |
| ```python | |
| import pyaging as pya | |
| pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["dnamtl"]) | |
| ``` | |
| Browse every clock in the [pyaging Clock Catalogue](https://pyaging.readthedocs.io). | |
| ## 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 | |