Paternal age and telomere length in twins: The germ stem cell selection paradigm

Aging Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 701-703

  Hjelmborg, Jacob B ^a   Dalgård, Christine ^a   Mangino, Massimo ^b   Spector, Tim D ^b   Halekoh, Ulrich ^a   Möller, Sören ^a   Kimura, Masayuki ^c   Horvath, Kent ^c   Kark, Jeremy D ^d   Christensen, Kaare ^a   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^a   Aviv, Abraham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Father s age; Germ line; Heritability; Leukocytes; Telomeres; Twins

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGING; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PATERNAL AGE; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PATERNAL AGE; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84927646529     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acel.12334     Document Type: Article

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