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This study applies machine learning on GTEx transcriptomic data to model tissue-specific biological ages across 12 different types of tissues and introduces an age-gap metric to quantify deviations from the chronological age. We use several modeling techniques optimized with three feature selection strategies: Pearson correlation, age-related differentially expressed genes, and tissue-enriched genes (expressed at least four-fold higher in a specific tissue). Among these, Pearson correlation combined with elastic net regression yields the best performance, with models achieving an average root mean squared error of 6.44 years and an R2 of 0.64. To quantify deviations from chronological age relative to the population, we train neural networks to regress predicted ages against chronological ages, and subtract their outputs from the predicted ages to calculate a metric that we call the age-gap. 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