The Claim
EpiAgePublic, an epigenetic clock utilizing three CpG sites (cg16867657, cg21572722, cg24724428) within the ELOVL2 gene, demonstrates a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.87 with chronological age when tested on blood samples from 4,625 human individuals spanning ages 0-103 years, indicating that a minimal three-marker epigenetic model can accurately estimate biological age.
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Scientists created a simple blood test that uses just 3 genetic markers to guess how old someone is, and it works really well - getting the age right about 87% of the time across thousands of people from newborns to centenarians.
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EpiAgePublic, an epigenetic clock based on only three CpG sites (cg16867657, cg21572722, cg24724428) in the ELOVL2 gene, achieves a correlation coefficient of 0.87 with chronological age in blood samples from 4,625 individuals aged 0-103 years, demonstrating that a minimal three-marker model can accurately estimate biological age
What the research says
1 studyThe study tested the exact same three-CpG epigenetic clock (EpiAgePublic) on over 4,600 people and found it works well for estimating age, matching what the claim says about achieving high accuracy with just three markers.
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