The association between global DNA methylation and telomere length in a longitudinal study of boilermakers

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 254-264

  Wong, Jason Y Y ^a,b   De Vivo, Immaculata ^a,b,c   Lin, Xihong ^a   Grashow, Rachel ^a   Cavallari, Jennifer ^a,d   Christiani, David C ^a,c,e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu; DNA methylation; LINE 1; Longitudinal; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOILER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OPEN STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SMOKING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TELOMERE; WORK EXPERIENCE;

ALU; DNA METHYLATION; LINE-1; LONGITUDINAL; TELOMERE;

ADULT; ALU ELEMENTS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, GENETIC; NAILS; OCCUPATIONS; PARTICULATE MATTER; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84895929689     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21796     Document Type: Article

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