pedbe

Pediatric chronological-age estimator developed specifically for noninvasive buccal epithelial-cell samples.

Model weights retain the original authors' terms; the pyaging software license does not relicense them.

Predicts	chronological age
Species	Homo sapiens
Tissue	buccal epithelium
Data type	DNA methylation
Model type	elastic net regression
Year	2020

Use with pyaging

import pyaging as pya

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

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Citation

McEwen, Lisa M., et al. "The PedBE clock accurately estimates DNA methylation age in pediatric buccal cells." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (2020): 23329–23335.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820843116