Telomere length behaves as biomarker of somatic redundancy rather than biological age

Aging Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 330-332

  Boonekamp, Jelle J ^a   Simons, Mirre J P ^a   Hemerik, Lia ^b   Verhulst, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Body mass index; Cholesterol; Gompertz; Mechanisms of aging; Senescence; Weibull

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL;

AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84878931597     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acel.12050     Document Type: Article

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