The effects of social status on biological aging as measured by white-blood-cell telomere length

Aging Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 361-365

  Cherkas, L F ^a   Aviv, A ^b   Valdes, A M ^a   Hunkin, J L ^a   Gardner, J P ^b   Surdulescu, G L ^a   Kimura, M ^b   Spector, Tim D ^a  

^a Twin Res/Genetic Epidemiology Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Social; Somatic cells; Status; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; LEUKOCYTE; LIFESTYLE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELOMERE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELOMERE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33748307395     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2006.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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