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. 2020 Oct 29;143(12):3763–3775. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa334

Table 4.

The cortex clock is less accurate at estimating DNA methylation age algorithms in blood compared to cortex tissue samples

DNAmClockCortical DNAmClockMulti DNAmClockBlood DNAmClockPheno
Correlation (r) 0.88 0.90 0.97 0.87
RMSE, years 10.79 7.32 3.95 11.70

Accuracy statistics between DNAm age estimates and chronological age using using our DNAmClockCortical, Horvath’s multi-tissue clock (DNAmClockMulti) (Horvath, 2013), Zhang’s elastic net blood clock (DNAmClockBlood) (Zhang et al., 2019) and Levine’s Pheno Age clock (DNAmClockPheno) (Levine et al., 2018) in our blood dataset (n =1175 whole blood samples). RMSE = root mean squared error.