Lack of association between leukocyte telomere length and genetic variants in two ageing-related candidate genes

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 128, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 415-422

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Kato, Bernet S ^a   Gardner, Jeffery P ^b   Kimura, Masayuki ^b   Spector, Tim D ^a   Ahmadi, Kourosh R ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Genetic association; KLOTHO; Leukocyte telomere length; TGFB1

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KLOTHO GENE; LEUKOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLUCURONIDASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TELOMERE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34547687507     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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