| library_name: pyaging | |
| tags: | |
| - pyaging | |
| - aging-clock | |
| - biology | |
| - dna-methylation | |
| # wu | |
| Child-specific 111-CpG blood age predictor built by sure independence screening followed by elastic net; pyaging converts the published month-scale output to years. | |
| Model weights retain the original authors' terms; the pyaging software license does not relicense them. | |
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| |---|---| | |
| | **Predicts** | chronological age | | |
| | **Species** | Homo sapiens | | |
| | **Tissue** | whole blood | | |
| | **Data type** | DNA methylation | | |
| | **Model type** | screened elastic net regression | | |
| | **Year** | 2019 | | |
| ## Use with pyaging | |
| ```python | |
| import pyaging as pya | |
| pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["wu"]) | |
| ``` | |
| Browse every clock in the [pyaging Clock Catalogue](https://pyaging.readthedocs.io). | |
| ## Citation | |
| Wu, X., et al. “DNA methylation profile is a quantitative measure of biological aging in children.” Aging 11(22): 10031–10051 (2019). | |
| https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102399 | |