In response to "no correlation between childhood maltreatment and telomere length"

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Tyrka, Audrey R ^a   Price, Lawrence H ^a   Kao, Hung Teh ^a   Porton, Barbara ^a   Carpenter, Linda L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; CHILD ABUSE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RAPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELOMERE; TWINS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77956175246     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.04.040     Document Type: Letter

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