The long and short of telomere length and diabetes

Diabetes

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-67

  Elks, Cathy E ^a   Scott, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84891760028     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db13-1469     Document Type: Note

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