Childhood trauma associated with short leukocyte telomere length in posttraumatic stress disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 465-471

  O'Donovan, Aoife ^a,d   Epel, Elissa ^a   Lin, Jue ^b   Wolkowitz, Owen ^a   Cohen, Beth ^a,c   Maguen, Shira ^a,d   Metzler, Thomas ^d   Lenoci, Maryann ^d   Blackburn, Elizabeth ^b   Neylan, Thomas C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; biological aging; childhood trauma; post traumatic stress disorder; telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TELOMERE;

EID: 80051470600     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.01.035     Document Type: Article

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