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| license: mit |
| library_name: pyaging |
| tags: |
| - pyaging |
| - aging-clock |
| - biology |
| - dna-methylation |
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| # weidner |
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| Three-site whole-blood epigenetic-age estimator. The sites were selected from Illumina 27K blood profiles, and the final multivariate linear equation was fitted on targeted bisulfite-pyrosequencing beta values from 82 blood samples and validated in 69 independent samples. |
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| | **Predicts** | biological age | |
| | **Species** | Homo sapiens | |
| | **Tissue** | whole blood | |
| | **Data type** | DNA methylation | |
| | **Model type** | linear regression | |
| | **Year** | 2014 | |
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| ## Use with pyaging |
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| ```python |
| import pyaging as pya |
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| pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["weidner"]) |
| ``` |
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| Browse every clock in the [pyaging Clock Catalogue](https://pyaging.readthedocs.io). |
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| ## Citation |
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| Weidner, C. I., Lin, Q., Koch, C. M., et al. (2014). Aging of blood can be tracked by DNA methylation changes at just three CpG sites. Genome Biology, 15, R24. |
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| https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r24 |
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