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Table 1 Description of the investigated epigenetic clocks. "Training samples" refers to the number of samples on which the clock was trained; "Training tissues" refers to the tissues used for development of the clock

From: Functional genomics analysis identifies T and NK cell activation as a driver of epigenetic clock progression

Epigenetic clock

Number of CpGs

Training samples

Training tissues

Publication date

Hannum Bld

71

656

Whole blood

2013 [2]

Horvath MT

353

3931

27 tissue types

2013 [3]

Horvath Skn/Bld

391

896

Whole blood, buccal cells, various skin cells

2018 [4]

Zhang Bld/Slv

514

13566

Whole blood, saliva

2019 [5]