reedbmi

Weighted blood-DNA-methylation score built from published BMI EWAS effect estimates and evaluated across the ARIES life course; it is a biomarker associated with concurrent BMI, not a calibrated prediction in kilograms.

Predicts	BMI methylation score
Species	Homo sapiens
Tissue	whole blood, cord blood
Data type	DNA methylation
Model type	weighted methylation aggregation
Year	2020

Use with pyaging

import pyaging as pya

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

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Citation

Reed, Zoe E., et al. "The association of DNA methylation with body mass index: distinguishing between predictors and biomarkers." Clinical Epigenetics 12 (2020): 50.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-020-00841-5