Genetic variation in human telomerase is associated with telomere length in Ashkenazi centenarians

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 1710-1717

  Atzmon, Gil ^a   Cho, Miook ^a   Cawthon, Richard M ^b   Budagov, Temuri ^a   Katz, Micol ^a   Yang, Xiaoman ^a   Siegel, Glenn ^a   Bergman, Aviv ^a   Huffman, Derek M ^a   Schechter, Clyde B ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^c   Shay, Jerry W ^c   Barzilai, Nir ^a   Govindaraju, Diddahally R ^d   Suh, Yousin ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Biomarker; Heritability; Longevity

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; HUMAN TELOMERASE RNA COMPONENT; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIPID; RNA; TELOMERASE RNA; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHERITANCE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 76549104441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906191106     Document Type: Article

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