metadata
library_name: pyaging
tags:
- pyaging
- aging-clock
- biology
- dna-methylation
knight
Elastic-net DNA-methylation estimator of gestational age at birth trained across six cord-blood and neonatal blood-spot cohorts, using 148 CpGs shared across the 27K and 450K arrays.
Model weights retain the original authors' terms; the pyaging software license does not relicense them.
| Predicts | gestational age |
| Species | Homo sapiens |
| Tissue | cord blood, neonatal blood spots |
| Data type | DNA methylation |
| Model type | elastic net regression |
| Year | 2016 |
Use with pyaging
import pyaging as pya
pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["knight"])
Browse every clock in the pyaging Clock Catalogue.
Citation
Knight, A. K., et al. "An epigenetic clock for gestational age at birth based on blood methylation data." Genome Biology 17 (2016): 206.