Maternal estriol concentrations in early gestation predict infant telomere length

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 267-273

  Entringer, Sonja ^a,e   Epel, Elissa S ^c   Lin, Jue ^a   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^d   Buss, Claudia ^a,e   Simhan, Hyagriv N ^b   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c Departments of Psychiatry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRIOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTRIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS OUTCOME; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE LENGTH; BLOOD; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOUTH MUCOSA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TELOMERE;

EID: 84920563861     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-2744     Document Type: Article

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