Commentary: Raising the bar on telomere epidemiology

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1735-1736

  Aviv, Abraham ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGING; DNA DETERMINATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MORTALITY; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SURVIVAL TIME; TELOMERE; AGE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; TWINS;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 75349093924     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp298     Document Type: Note

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