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Re:Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample by imvetri on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:41AM (#22523442)
Is the underlying concept related to 'By analyzing proteins in the blood, one can estimate a person's biological age, as well as weight, height, and hip circumference, mentioned in this article ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3349739/Woul...

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Re:Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample by ruborcalor on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:00AM (#22525904)
The two concepts definitely may be related, but the approach used in this paper doesn't make use of proteins in the blood. Rather it uses the DNA methylation extracted from white blood cells in the blood.

Interesting article thanks for sharing.

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