Which Epigenetics Testing Kit Is Worth Buying
How to choose a DNA methylation test by what data it returns, not by the clock names on the marketing page, and how to run the clocks yourself from raw IDAT files.
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How to choose a DNA methylation test by what data it returns, not by the clock names on the marketing page, and how to run the clocks yourself from raw IDAT files.
Two very different assays are sold under the name 'methylation panel': a one-carbon biochemistry blood panel and a DNA methylation assay. Here is what each one measures, which files you get, and how to process them yourself.
A practical comparison of DNA methylation tests: which array, which clocks, how to get the raw IDATs, and how to process them yourself with sesame and dnaMethyAge. Plus the noise sources that make a single epigenetic age number close to meaningless.