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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

MammalMethylClock R package: software for DNA methylation-based epigenetic clocks in mammals.

Joseph Zoller, Steve Horvath

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph ZollerDepartment of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6309-0291
Steve HorvathDepartment of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4110-3589
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Validation and optimization of epigenetic clocksU01AG060908 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI RITZ, BEATE R. · 2018 to 2022
$3.4M
NIA NIH HHS U01 AG060908Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group 1U01AG060908-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationEpigenetic clocks are prediction methods based on DNA methylation levels in a given species or set of species. Defined as multivariate regression models, these DNA methylation-based biomarkers of age or mortality risk are useful in species conservation efforts and in preclinical studies.

resultsWe present an R package called MammalMethylClock for the construction, assessment, and application of epigenetic clocks in different mammalian species. The R package includes the utility for implementing pre-existing mammalian clocks from the Mammalian Methylation Consortium. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code and documentation manual for MammalMethylClock, and clock coefficient .csv files that are included within this software package, can be found on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10971037.

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DNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticMammalsSoftwareAnimalsEpigenomicsHumans

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PMID38656974
PMCPMC11091737
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