Absence of association of a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the TERT-CLPTM1L locus with age-related phenotypes in a large multicohort study: The HALCyon programme

Aging Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 520-532

  Alfred, Tamuno ^a   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^a   Cooper, Rachel ^b   Hardy, Rebecca ^b   Cooper, Cyrus ^c,d   Deary, Ian J ^e   Elliott, Jane ^f   Gunnell, David ^a   Harris, Sarah E ^e   Kivimaki, Mika ^b   Kumari, Meena ^b   Martin, Richard M ^a   Power, Chris ^g   Sayer, Avan Aihie ^b,h   Starr, John M ^e   Kuh, Diana ^b   Day, Ian N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Middle aged; Physical; Telomere

Indexed keywords

CISPLATINUM RESISTANCE RELATED PROTEIN 9; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG FUNCTION; META ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

HALCYON;

EID: 79955961269     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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