Tracking and fixed ranking of leukocyte telomere length across the adult life course

Aging Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 615-621

  Benetos, Athanase ^a,b   Kark, Jeremy D ^c   Susser, Ezra ^d,e   Kimura, Masayuki ^f   Sinnreich, Ronit ^c   Chen, Wei ^g   Steenstrup, Troels ^h   Christensen, Kaare ^h   Herbig, Utz ⁱ   Von Bornemann Hjelmborg, Jacob ^h   Srinivasan, Sathanur R ^g   Berenson, Gerald S ^g   Labat, Carlos ^a,b   Aviv, Abraham ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

^g Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

ⁱ RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Leukocytes; Longitudinal; Southern blots; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELL TRACKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TELOMERE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; CELL AGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; CELL AGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880511406     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acel.12086     Document Type: Article

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