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Table 1 Sample demographics of adults from NHANES 1999–2000 and 2001–2002 with available DNA methylation data

From: Influence of race, ethnicity, and sex on the performance of epigenetic predictors of phenotypic traits

Variable

Distribution

 

Count (%)

Race/Ethnicity

Mexican American

694 (28.1%)

Other Hispanic

159 (6.4%)

Non-Hispanic White

1,005 (40.7%)

Non-Hispanic Black

533 (21.6%)

Other/Multiracial

81 (3.3%)

Sex

Male

1255 (50.8%)

Female

1217 (49.2%)

 

Mean (SD)

Age (years)

66.1 (10.1)

 

Corr. (MAE)

Horvath Clock

0.80 (3.44)

Hannum Clock

0.82 (3.43)

Skin&Blood Clock

0.87 (2.71)

Lin Clock

0.76 (9.04)

Vidal-Bralo Clock

0.62 (6.09)

Weidner Clock

0.55 (11.37)

Zhang Clock

0.89 (4.97)

Telomere Length

0.38 (1.12)

Beta-2 Microglobulin (B2M)

0.46 (0.46)

C-Reactive Protein (CRP)

0.35 (1.51)

Cystatin C

0.43 (0.24)

HbA1c

0.41 (0.30)

Total Lymphocytes

0.88 (0.03)

Monocytes

0.75 (0.01)

Neutrophils

0.88 (0.02)

  1. Counts (%) are given for demographic variables, mean (SD) is provided for chronological age, and Pearson correlation coefficients (MAE) between DNAm-derived and lab-derived measures or chronological age in the overall sample are provided for all biomarkers. Unweighted distributions are presented