Automated assay of telomere length measurement and informatics for 100,000 subjects in the genetic epidemiology research on adult health and aging (GERA) cohort

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1061-1072

  Lapham, Kyle ^a   Kvale, Mark N ^b   Lin, Jue ^a   Connell, Sheryl ^c   Croen, Lisa A ^c   Dispensa, Brad P ^b   Fang, Lynn ^a   Hesselson, Stephanie ^b   Hoffmann, Thomas J ^b   Iribarren, Carlos ^c   Jorgenson, Eric ^c   Kushi, Lawrence H ^c   Ludwig, Dana ^c   Matsuguchi, Tetsuya ^a   McGuire, William B ^c   Miles, Sunita ^c   Quesenberry, Charles P ^c   Rowell, Sarah ^c   Sadler, Marianne ^c   Sakoda, Lori C ^c   Smethurst, David ^c   Somkin, Carol P ^c   Van Den Eeden, Stephen K ^c   Walter, Lawrence ^c   Whitmer, Rachel A ^c   Kwo, Pui Yan ^b   Risch, Neil ^a,b,c   Schaefer, Catherine ^c   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

GERA cohort; Quantitative PCR; Relative telomere length; Robotic assay; Saliva DNA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; RELIABILITY; SALIVA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE; BIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEALTH; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGING; AUTOMATION; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84939423817     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.178624     Document Type: Article

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