mccartneybodyfat

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for body fat percentage, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

Predicts	body fat percentage
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, ["mccartneybodyfat"])

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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