Association between telomere length in blood and mortality in people aged 60 years or older

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Volumn 361, Issue 9355, 2003, Pages 393-395

  Cawthon, Richard M ^a   Smith, Ken R ^b,c   O'Brien, Elizabeth ^c   Sivatchenko, Anna ^a   Kerber, Richard A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE;

EID: 0037308404     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12384-7     Document Type: Article

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