Association of shorter leukocyte telomere repeat length with dementia and mortality

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1332-1339

  Honig, Lawrence S ^a,b   Kang, Min Suk ^a   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b   Lee, Joseph H ^a,b   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b  

^a P and S Unit 16 ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CELL DNA;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84867346421     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.1541     Document Type: Article

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