Authors' response: Correlation between baseline telomere length and shortening over time-spurious or true?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 840-841

  Kloss Brandstätter, Anita ^a   Willeit, Peter ^a,b   Lamina, Claudia ^a   Kiechl, Stefan ^a   Kronenberg, Florian ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 79961193687     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq237     Document Type: Letter

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