Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the natural killer cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

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Salas, L.A., Zhang, Z., Koestler, D.C. et al. Enhanced cell deconvolution of peripheral blood using DNA methylation for high-resolution immune profiling. Nature Communications 13, 761 (2022).