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

mccartneywhr

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for waist-to-hip ratio, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

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

Predicts waist-to-hip ratio
Species Homo sapiens
Tissue whole blood
Data type DNA methylation
Model type LASSO regression
Year 2018

Use with pyaging

import pyaging as pya

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

Browse every clock in the pyaging Clock Catalogue.

Citation

McCartney, D. L., et al. “Epigenetic prediction of complex traits and death.” Genome Biology 19, 136 (2018).

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1