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

epicga

LASSO predictor of ultrasound-estimated gestational age in days from umbilical cord-blood DNA methylation, trained in 755 non-ART START newborns.

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

Predicts gestational age
Species Homo sapiens
Tissue cord blood
Data type DNA methylation
Model type LASSO regression
Year 2021

Use with pyaging

import pyaging as pya

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

Browse every clock in the pyaging Clock Catalogue.

Citation

Haftorn, K. L. et al. An EPIC predictor of gestational age and its application to newborns conceived by assisted reproductive technologies. Clinical Epigenetics 13, 82 (2021).

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-021-01055-z