Comparison between southern blots and qPCR analysis of leukocyte telomere length in the health ABC study

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 69 A, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 527-531

  Elbers, Clara C ^a   Garcia, Melissa E ^b   Kimura, Masayuki ^c   Cummings, Steven R ^d   Nalls, Mike A ^b   Newman, Anne B ^e,f   Park, Vicki ^g   Sanders, Jason L ^f   Tranah, Gregory J ^h   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^a   Harris, Tamara B ^b   Aviv, Abraham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

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

^d Univ of California Sch of Medicine   (United States)

^e GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Leukocyte telomere length; Quantitative PCR; Southern blots.

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTS.; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE;

LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SOUTHERN BLOTS.;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGING; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BODY COMPOSITION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 84899086811     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glt121     Document Type: Article

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