Red Blood Cell Size Is Inversely Associated with Leukocyte Telomere Length in a Large Multi-Ethnic Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Kozlitina, Julia ^a   Garcia, Christine Kim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; TELOMERE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TEXAS;

EID: 84870748217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051046     Document Type: Article

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