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 "approved_by_author": "\u231b",
 "citation": "Yang, Zhen, et al. \"Correlation of an epigenetic mitotic clock with cancer risk.\" Genome Biology 17 (2016): 205.",
 "citations": 357,
 "citations_date": "2026-07-05",
 "clock_name": "epitoc1",
 "data_type": "DNA methylation",
 "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1064-3",
 "journal": "Genome Biology",
 "last_author": "Andrew E. Teschendorff",
 "model_type": "mean methylation aggregation",
 "n_features": 385,
 "notes": "Relative mitotic-age score equal to the mean beta value across 385 polycomb-target promoter CpGs; it is not an absolute division count.",
 "platform": [
  "Illumina 450K"
 ],
 "population": "all ages",
 "predicts": [
  "mitotic age"
 ],
 "preprocess": "mean",
 "reference_values": true,
 "research_only": null,
 "species": "Homo sapiens",
 "tissue": [
  "multi-tissue",
  "whole blood"
 ],
 "training_target": [
  "chronological age"
 ],
 "unit": [
  "beta value"
 ],
 "version": "0.5.0",
 "year": 2016
}