retroelementagev2

Composite Retroelement-Age V2 extends the retroelement annotation to CpGs compatible across EPIC v1.0 and v2.0 and was trained by 10-fold-cross-validated elastic net.

Predicts	chronological age
Species	Homo sapiens
Tissue	whole blood
Data type	DNA methylation
Model type	elastic net regression
Year	2024

Use with pyaging

import pyaging as pya

pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["retroelementagev2"])

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Citation

Ndhlovu, Lishomwa C., et al. "Retro-age: A unique epigenetic biomarker of aging captured by DNA methylation states of retroelements." Aging Cell 23 (2024): e14288.

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14288